Phase-space invariants as indicators of the critical behavior of nanoaggregates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2004, Pages

  Aquilanti, Vincenzo ^a   Lombardi, Andrea ^a   Sevryuk, Mikhail B ^a,c   Yurtsever, Ersin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c SEMENOV INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KINEMATICS; KINETIC ENERGY; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; VECTORS;

ANGULAR MOMENTA; CARTESIAN COORDINATES; ENERGY THRESHOLDS; NANOAGGREGATES;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 19644373120     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.113402     Document Type: Article

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