Dislocation lines as the precursor of the melting of crystalline solids observed in Monte Carlo simulations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Gomez L ^a,b   Dobry, A ^a,b   Geuting, Ch ^b   Diep, H T ^b   Burakovsky, L ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); EQUATIONS OF STATE; MELTING; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS; FACE CENTERED CUBIC;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

EID: 0037424144     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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