Fast Monte Carlo algorithm for supercooled soft spheres

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

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2001, Pages

  Grigera, Tomás S ^a   Parisi, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; GLASS TRANSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; SPHERES; THERMOANALYSIS;

SUPERCOOLED SOFT SPHERES;

BINARY MIXTURES;

EID: 0035306293     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.63.045102     Document Type: Article

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