Monte Carlo Methods for Estimating Interfacial Free Energies and Line Tensions

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 690-729

  Binder, Kurt ^a   Block, Benjamin ^a   Das, Subir K ^b   Virnau, Peter ^a   Winter, David ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Interfacial free energies; Line tensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052038222     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-011-0226-7     Document Type: Article

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