Melting of two-dimensional adatom superlattices stabilized by long-range electronic interactions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 24, 2009, Pages

  Negulyaev, N N ^a   Stepanyuk, V S ^b   Niebergall, L ^b   Bruno, P ^b,c   Pivetta, M ^d   Ternes, M ^d,e   Patthey, F ^d   Schneider, W D ^d  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUCIAL PARAMETERS; CU(1 1 1); DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONIC INTERACTIONS; HEXATIC PHASE; KINETIC MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; LIQUID TRANSITION; LOW-TEMPERATURE SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; MELTING TRANSITIONS; NOBLE METALS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MELTING;

ADATOMS; CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; LIQUIDS; METAL MELTING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PRECIOUS METALS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SILVER; SMELTING;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 67549109245     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.246102     Document Type: Article

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