Freezing of parallel hard cubes with rounded edges

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 136, Issue 14, 2012, Pages

  Marechal, Matthieu ^a   Zimmermann, Urs ^a   Löwen, Hartmut ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUILIBRIUM PHASE DIAGRAMS; EXTERNAL FIELDS; FACE-CENTERED CUBIC LATTICES; FIRST ORDER TRANSITIONS; FREEZING TRANSITION; HARD SPHERES; ROUNDED EDGE; SECOND ORDERS; SHARP EDGES; SIMPLE-CUBIC LATTICES; SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES; THREE DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS; UNIT CELLS; VACANCY CONCENTRATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GEOMETRY; PHASE DIAGRAMS;

FREEZING;

EID: 84859957272     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3699086     Document Type: Article

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