Nucleation barriers in tetrahedral liquids spanning glassy and crystallizing regimes

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 135, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Saika Voivod, Ivan ^a   Romano, Flavio ^b   Sciortino, Francesco ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND CRYSTALS; GLASS-FORMING; HEXAGONAL DIAMOND; MONTE CARLO; NUCLEATION BARRIER; NUMERICAL PRECISION; OPTIMAL VALUES; PATCH SIZE; PATCH WIDTH; TETRAHEDRAL LIQUIDS; THERMODYNAMICALLY STABLE; UMBRELLA SAMPLING;

NUCLEATION; SURFACE TENSION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; THERMODYNAMICS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 80053471392     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3638046     Document Type: Article

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