Hard-disk equation of state: First-order liquid-hexatic transition in two dimensions with three simulation methods

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

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Engel, Michael ^a   Anderson, Joshua A ^a   Glotzer, Sharon C ^a   Isobe, Masaharu ^b,c   Bernard, Etienne P ^d   Krauth, Werner ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIGURATION SPACE; INDIVIDUAL CONFIGURATION; MASSIVELY PARALLELS; MELTING PHASE TRANSITION; MELTING TRANSITIONS; MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; ORIENTATIONAL ORDER PARAMETERS; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF STATE OF LIQUIDS; MELTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84877744022     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.042134     Document Type: Article

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