Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Monte Carlo Simulations of Microphases and Cluster Crystals

<p>Soft matter systems exhibiting spatially modulated patterns on a mesoscale are characterized by many long-lived metastable phases for which relaxation to equilibrium is difficult and a satisfactory thermodynamic description is missing. Current dynamical theories suffer as well, because they...

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Main Author: Zhang, Kai
Other Authors: Charbonneau, Patrick
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10161/5856