Topological defects and nonhomogeneous melting of large two-dimensional Coulomb clusters

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 2 1, 2003, Pages 216081-216088

  Kong, Minghui ^a   Partoens, B ^a   Peeters, F M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GROUND STATE; HAMILTONIANS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

COULOMB CLUSTERS;

MELTING;

EID: 0037724157     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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