Monte Carlo tests of nucleation concepts in the lattice gas model

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

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Schmitz, Fabian ^a   Virnau, Peter ^a   Binder, Kurt ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTIVE INTERACTIONS; CLUSTER-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; EQUILIBRIUM SIMULATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; NONSPHERICAL CLUSTERS; PARTICLE INSERTION METHOD; SUPERSATURATED VAPORS;

CHEMICAL POTENTIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTACT ANGLE; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DROPS; ISING MODEL; LATTICE THEORY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; VAPORS;

NUCLEATION;

GAS;

ALGORITHM; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; GAS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; GASES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 84877918228     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.053302     Document Type: Article

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