Irreducible finite-size effects in the surface free energy of NaCl crystals from crystal-nucleation data

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Zykova Timan, T ^a,b   Valeriani, C ^c   Sanz, E ^d   Frenkel, D ^c,e   Tosatti, E ^b,f  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b DEMOCRITOS NATIONAL SIMULATION CENTER   (Italy)

^c FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREE ENERGY; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; NUCLEATION; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

FINITE-SIZE EFFECTS; SURFACE FREE ENERGY; THERMODYNAMIC PROCEDURE;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 38549130754     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.036103     Document Type: Article

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