Physical Review Letters
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Scaling of Relaxation and Entropy in Buckled Colloidal Monolayers
Author(s): Yongming Zhang, Qingyu Qu, Qian-Yuan Tang, and Xiaoguang Ma
By extracting spin configurations directly from a colloidal monolayer mimicking a 2D Ising lattice, entropy scaling laws for liquids and glasses are extended to the domain of spin systems, revealing a universal exponential relationship between configurational entropy and spin relaxation time. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 048201] Published Tue Jul 21, 2026