Phase field theory of crystal nucleation in hard sphere liquid

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 119, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 10376-10382

  Gránásy, László ^a   Pusztai, Tamás ^a   Tóth, Gyula ^a   Jurek, Zoltän ^a   Conti, Massimo ^b   Kvamme, Bjørn ^c  

^a RISSPO   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FREE ENERGY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

CRYSTAL NUCLEATION; HARD SPHERE LIQUID; PHASE FIELD THEORY;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 0345098314     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1618213     Document Type: Article

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