On the Lennard-Jones EAM potential

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 460, Issue 2046, 2004, Pages 1649-1672

  Srinivasan, S G ^a   Baskes, M I ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Defects; Free energy; Gr neisen; Many body; Melting; Molecular dynamics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATOM; ELASTICITY; EMBEDDING; ENERGY; FORCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MELTING POINT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 2542522183     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2003.1190     Document Type: Article

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