Published March 21, 2008
| Version v1
Journal article
Melting of Trapped Few-Particle Systems
- 1. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel, D-24098 Kiel (Germany)
- 2. Institute for Optics and Spectroscopy of the RAS, Troitsk (Russian Federation)
Description
In small confined systems predictions for the melting point strongly depend on the choice of quantity and on the way it is computed, even yielding divergent and ambiguous results. We present a very simple quantity that allows us to control these problems--the variance of the block averaged interparticle distance fluctuations
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.113401;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0711.1124v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 100
- Journal Issue
- 11
- Journal Page Range
- p. 113401-113401.4
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTAO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 40006470
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CONTROL THEORY; FLUCTUATIONS; MANY-BODY PROBLEM; MELTING POINTS; TRAPPING
- Descriptors DEC
- PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; VARIATIONS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2008 The American Physical Society