Energy landscape, two-level systems, and entropy barriers in lennard-jones clusters

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 3200-3205

  Ruocco, G ^b   Pilla, O ^a   Viliani, G ^a   Brangian, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

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EID: 0000044661     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.3200     Document Type: Article

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