Comparison of simple perturbation-theory estimates for the liquid-solid and the liquid-vapor interfacial free energies of Lennard-Jones systems

Molecular Simulation

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1023-1028

  Valeriani, C ^a   Wang, Z J ^a,b   Frenkel, D ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Liquid solid; Liquid vapor; Surface free energy; Tail corrections

Indexed keywords

FREE ENERGY; NUMERICAL METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SURFACE TENSION;

LENNARD-JONES SYSTEMS; SURFACE FREE ENERGY; TAIL CORRECTIONS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 36248990079     PISSN: 08927022     EISSN: 10290435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927020701579352     Document Type: Article

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