Static properties of a simulated supercooled polymer melt: Structure factors, monomer distributions relative to the center of mass, and triple correlation functions

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

Volumn 69, Issue 6 1, 2004, Pages

  Aichele, Martin ^a,b   Chong, Song Ho ^c   Baschnagel, Jörg ^b   Fuchs, Matthias ^d  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT CHARLES SADRON   (France)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVOLUTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GLASS TRANSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; MONOMERS; SUPERCOOLING; TOPOLOGY; VECTORS;

CENTER OF MASS (CM); CONVOLUTION APPROXIMATION; MODE-COUPLING THEORY (MCT); SUPERCOOLED POLYMER MELT;

POLYMERS;

EID: 42749098738     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.061801     Document Type: Article

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