Why do ultrasoft repulsive particles cluster and crystallize? Analytical results from density-functional theory

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 126, Issue 22, 2007, Pages

  Likos, Christos N ^a   Mladek, Bianca M ^b   Gottwald, Dieter ^b   Kahl, Gerhard ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATION THEORY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FOURIER COMPONENTS; INHOMOGENEOUS PHASES; POSITIVE PAIR POTENTIALS;

CRYSTALLIZATION;

EID: 34250780571     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2738064     Document Type: Article

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