Transitions between imperfectly ordered crystalline structures: A phase switch Monte Carlo study

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Wilms, Dorothea ^a   Wilding, Nigel B ^b   Binder, Kurt ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALMOST PERIODIC; CONFINING WALLS; CONSTANT PARTICLE NUMBER; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; FREE-ENERGY DIFFERENCE; HYSTERESIS EFFECT; INDEPENDENT CONTROL; INITIAL VALUES; METASTABLE STRUCTURES; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO STUDY; NORMAL PRESSURE; ORDERED STRUCTURES; PHASE SWITCH; SIMULATION STUDIES; STATISTICAL ENSEMBLES; STRAIN PATTERNS; THERMODYNAMIC INTEGRATION METHODS; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE;

FREE ENERGY; METASTABLE PHASES; SOLITONS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84861956070     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.056703     Document Type: Article

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