Metallic liquids and glasses: Atomic order and global packing

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 15, 2010, Pages

  Liu, X J ^a,b   Xu, Y ^a   Hui, X ^a   Lu, Z P ^a   Li, F ^c   Chen, G L ^a   Lu, J ^b   Liu, C T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC CONFIGURATION; ATOMIC ORDERS; GLASSY STATE; METALLIC LIQUID; PAIR DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; PERIODIC ORDERS; STRUCTURAL BEHAVIORS; TRANSLATIONAL SYMMETRY;

GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; METALLIC GLASS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 77957580454     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.155501     Document Type: Article

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