Nucleation and growth in pressure-induced phase transitions from molecular dynamics simulations: Mechanism of the reconstructive transformation of NaCl to the CsCl-type structure

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 25 I, 2004, Pages

  Zahn, Dirk ^a   Leoni, Stefane ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ATOMIC PHYSICS; CESIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); INTERPOLATION; NUCLEATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; REACTION KINETICS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ATOMIC MOMENTA; COORDINATION NUMBER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE PHASE TRANSITIONS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 3442887964     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.250201     Document Type: Article

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