Logarithmic finite-size effects on interfacial free energies: Phenomenological theory and Monte Carlo studies

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

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

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

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; FREE ENERGY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; ISING MODEL; PHASE INTERFACES;

BULK ORDER PARAMETERS; DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS; INTERFACIAL FLUCTUATIONS; INTERFACIAL FREE ENERGY; LENNARD JONES FLUID; PHENOMENOLOGICAL THEORY; STATISTICAL ENSEMBLES; TRANSLATIONAL ENTROPIES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84905458007     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.90.012128     Document Type: Article

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