Plastic deformation of orthoenstatite and the ortho- to high-pressure clinoenstatite transition: A metadynamics simulation study

Physics and Chemistry of Minerals

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-23

  Jahn, Sandro ^a   Martoňák, Roman ^b  

^a GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam ^*  (Germany)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Clinopyroxene; Enstatite; Metadynamics; MgSiO3; Molecular dynamics; Orthopyroxene; Phase transition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION;

CLINOPYROXENE TRANSITION; HIGH-ENERGY INTERMEDIATE STRUCTURES; HIGH-PRESSURE CLINOENSTATITE; ORTHOENSTATITE;

MAGNESITE;

CLINOPYROXENE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISLOCATION; ENSTATITE; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; HIGH PRESSURE; PHASE TRANSITION; PLASTIC DEFORMATION;

EID: 37748999155     PISSN: 03421791     EISSN: 14322021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00269-007-0194-2     Document Type: Article

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