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In many cases, the stability of complex structures in colloidal systems isenhanced by a competition between different length scales. Inspired by recentexperiments on nanoparticles coated with polymers, we use Monte Carlosimulations to explore the types of crystal structures that can form in asimple hard-core square shoulder model which explicitly incorporates twofavored distances between the particles. To this end, we combine MonteCarlo-based crystal structure finding algorithms with free energies obtainedusing a mean-field cell theory approach, and draw phase diagrams for twodifferent values of the square shoulder width as a function of the density andtemperature. Moreover, we map out the zero-temperature phase diagram for abroad range of shoulder widths. Our results show the stability of a richvariety of crystal phases, such as body-centered orthogonal (BCO) lattices, notpreviously considered for the square shoulder model.

Low-temperature crystal structures of the hard core square shoulder model