Slow relaxation due to optimization and restructuring: Solution on a hierarchical lattice

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

Volumn 67, Issue 2 2, 2003, Pages 261081-2610811

  Török, János ^a   Krishnamurthy, Supriya ^b,d   Kertész, János ^a   Roux, Stéphane ^c  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE SEPARATION; STRAIN;

HIERARCHICAL LATTICES;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 3843059490     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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