A metadynamics-based approach to sampling crystallisation events

Molecular Simulation

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 613-623

  Quigley, D ^a   Rodger, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crystallisation; Freezing; Ice; Lennard Jones; Long timescale

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLISATION; FINITE SIZE EFFECT; FREE-ENERGY LANDSCAPE; LENNARD JONES; METADYNAMICS; MOLECULAR SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE CLUSTERS; ORDER PARAMETER; PARAMETERISATION; TIME-SCALES; WATER SYSTEM;

FREEZING; ICE;

CRYSTALLIZATION;

EID: 69949115243     PISSN: 08927022     EISSN: 10290435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927020802647280     Document Type: Article

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