The melting temperature of bulk silicon from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations

Chemical Physics Letters

Volumn 481, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 88-90

  Yoo, Soohaeng ^a   Xantheas, Sotiris S ^a   Zeng, Xiao Cheng ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; BORN-OPPENHEIMER MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; BULK SILICON; CONSTANT PRESSURES; CRITICAL POINTS; FIRST-ORDER; LIQUID PHASE; LIQUID-LIQUID PHASE TRANSITIONS; MELTING TEMPERATURES; SUPERCOOLED STATE; ZERO PRESSURE;

EQUATIONS OF STATE; LIQUIDS; METAL MELTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

MELTING POINT;

EID: 72049103136     PISSN: 00092614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2009.09.075     Document Type: Article

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