Approaching equilibrium and the distribution of clusters

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

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Wang, Hui ^a   Barros, Kipton ^b   Gould, Harvey ^a   Klein, W ^b  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MAGNETIZATION; NUCLEATION; PHASE STABILITY;

LANGEVIN DYNAMICS; METASTABLE EQUILIBRIUMS; METROPOLIS ALGORITHMS; NUCLEATING DROPLETS;

PHASE EQUILIBRIA;

EID: 35248896343     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.041116     Document Type: Article

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