Equilibrium cluster phases and low-density arrested disordered states: The role of short-range attraction and long-range repulsion

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Sciortino, Francesco ^a   Mossa, Stefano ^a,b   Zaccarelli, Emanuela ^a   Tartaglia, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOND PERCOLATION; COLLOID-COLLOID INTERACTIONS; COLLOIDAL SYSTEMS; FLUID-CRYSTAL TRANSITIONS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; DATA REDUCTION; GELS; MELTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SHEAR STRESS; SIGNALING; VITRIFICATION;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 19244365097     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.055701     Document Type: Article

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