Phase diagram and commensurate-incommensurate transitions in the phase field crystal model with an external pinning potential

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

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Achim, C V ^a   Karttunen, M ^b   Elder, K R ^c   Granato, E ^d   Ala Nissila, T ^a,e   Ying, S C ^e  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; FREE ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; TOPOLOGY;

ADSORBED ATOMIC LAYERS; LATTICE SYSTEMS; PINNING POTENTIAL; TWO-DIMENSIONAL VORTEX;

PHASE DIAGRAMS;

EID: 33746927115     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.021104     Document Type: Article

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