Large difference in the elastic properties of fcc and hcp hard-sphere crystals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 25 I, 2003, Pages 2555011-2555014

  Pronk, Sander ^a   Frenkel, Daan ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; COMPRESSIBILITY OF SOLIDS; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; ELASTICITY; FREE ENERGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS;

PACKING FRACTIONS;

CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE;

EID: 0042267370     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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