Cooling-rate effects in a model of glasses

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 6375-6382

  Lipowski, A ^a,b   Johnston, D ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLASS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; ISING MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TEMPERATURE; COOLING; CRYSTALLIZATION; GLASS TRANSITION; LOW TEMPERATURE PROPERTIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE COMPOSITION; THERMODYNAMICS;

COOLING RATES; CRYSTAL PHASE; FOUR-SPIN INTERACTIONS; HETEROGENEOUS CRYSTALLIZATION; LOW TEMPERATURES; SLOW DYNAMICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ISING MODEL; ZERO TEMPERATURES;

COOLING; GLASS;

LOW TEMPERATURE DYNAMICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL ISING MODEL;

EID: 0034206902     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.61.6375     Document Type: Article

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