A free-energy landscape picture and Landau theory for the dynamics of disordered materials

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 125, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Javaheri, Mohammad Reza H ^a   Chamberlin, Ralph V ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDAU THEORY; NANOTHERMODYNAMICS; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS,;

ENTROPY; FREE ENERGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 33750167100     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2354471     Document Type: Article

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