Squeezed thermal phonons precurse nonthermal melting of silicon as a function of fluence

Physical Review X

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Zijlstra, Eeuwe S ^a,b   Kalitsov, Alan ^a,c   Zier, Tobias ^a,b   Garcia, Martin E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology CINSaT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT FLUCTUATION; INTERATOMIC BONDS; MELTING THRESHOLD; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS; THERMAL PHONONS; THERMODYNAMIC CONDITIONS;

ATOM LASERS; PHONONS; POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SILICON;

MELTING;

EID: 84883420146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.011005     Document Type: Article

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