Tight-binding simulation of transition-metal alloys

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 23, Issue 27, 2011, Pages

  McEniry, Eunan J ^a   Madsen, Georg K H ^a   Drain, John F ^b   Drautz, Ralf ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; INTERATOMIC INTERACTIONS; PARAMETERIZED; TIGHT BINDING; TIGHT BINDING MODEL; TIGHT-BINDING APPROXIMATIONS;

CALCULATIONS; CERIUM ALLOYS; CHROMIUM; MANGANESE; TRANSITION METALS;

TRANSITION METAL ALLOYS;

EID: 79959952104     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/23/27/276004     Document Type: Article

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