Crystalline Order on a Sphere and the Generalized Thomson Problem

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 18, 2002, Pages

  Bowick, M ^a   Cacciuto, A ^a   Nelson, D R ^b   Travesset, A ^c  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ELASTIC MODULI; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GROUND STATE;

CRYSTALLINE ORDER; GENERALIZED THOMSON PROBLEM; SQUARE LATTICES;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

EID: 4243457247     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.185502     Document Type: Article

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