phase behavior19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28. For example, for regular hexagons24, a hexatic phase, a hexagonal rotator crystal, a hexagonal crystal, and a frustrated hexagonal crystal are found whereas for regu
this energy functional is reminiscent of the entropic chain stretching free energy of copolymeric self-assemblies in the strong segregation limit31. The Quantizer problem is the minimisation of the ‘total energy’, defined as the sum\(\mathop {\sum}\...