The kinetics of homogeneous melting beyond the limit of superheating

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Alfe D ^a   Cazorla, C ^b   Gillan, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA ICMAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED-ATOM MODELS; FREE SURFACES; HOMOGENEOUS MELTING; INTERACTION MODEL; LIQUID STATE; MEAN VALUES; MELTING PROCESS; MELTING PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PERFECT CRYSTALS; SIMULATED MATERIALS; SMALL SYSTEMS; SUPERHEATED CRYSTALS; SUPERHEATING LIMIT; SYSTEM SIZE; TIME-SCALES; TOTAL ENERGY; WAITING-TIME;

ATOMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

MELTING;

EID: 79960475962     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3605601     Document Type: Article

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