PHASE AND ANTI-PHASE BOUNDARIES IN BINARY DISCRETE SYSTEMS: A VARIATIONAL VIEWPOINT

Networks and Heterogeneous Media

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 85-107

  Alicandro, Roberto ^a   Braides, Andrea ^b   Cicalese, Marco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

anti phase boundaries; binary alloys; Lattice systems; spin systems; surface energies; convergence

Indexed keywords

ANTIPHASE BOUNDARIES; DISCRETE SYSTEMS; ENERGY; LATTICE SYSTEM; NEAREST-NEIGHBOUR; SCALINGS; SPIN SYSTEMS; SPIN-S SYSTEMS; Γ-CONVERGENCE; Γ-LIMIT;

BINARY ALLOYS;

EID: 34547297895     PISSN: 15561801     EISSN: 1556181X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/nhm.2006.1.85     Document Type: Article

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