Phase transitions in nanosystems caused by interface motion: The Ising bipyramid with competing surface fields

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Milchev, A ^a,b   Muller M ^a,c   Binder, K ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOSYSTEMS; SPONTANEOUS MAGNETIZATION;

GEOMETRY; MAGNETIZATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SURFACES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 28844460030     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.031603     Document Type: Article

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