Minimal energy clusters of hard spheres with short range attractions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Arkus, Natalie ^a   Manoharan, Vinothan N ^a   Brenner, Michael P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; GRAPH-THEORETIC; HARD SPHERES; HARD-SPHERE; HEXAGONAL CLOSE-PACKED; MINIMAL ENERGY; RIGIDITY CONSTRAINT; SHORT-RANGE ATTRACTION; SPHERICAL PARTICLE;

GROUND STATE; SPHERES;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 70349140858     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.118303     Document Type: Article

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