Critical behavior in ferroelectrics from first principles

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Almahmoud, Emad ^a   Kornev, Igor ^b,c   Bellaiche, L ^b  

^a AL AL BAYT UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CRITICAL BEHAVIORS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; MEAN-FIELD APPROACHES; MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; UNIVERSALITY CLASS;

OZONE WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 63249114007     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.105701     Document Type: Article

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