New insights into the melting behavior of MgO from molecular dynamics simulations: The importance of premelting effects

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Aguado, Andrés ^a   Madden, Paul A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUID PHASES; MELTING BEHAVIOR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PREMELTING EFFECTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTALS; GEOPHYSICS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; ROCKS; SALTS;

MAGNESIA;

EID: 18144371621     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.068501     Document Type: Article

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