A statistical description of the local structure of condensed matter

A.C. Mitus and A.Z. Patashinskii

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1988, vol. 150, issue 2, 383-401

Abstract: Conditions for the recognition of structures of 13-atom clusters (fcc, hcp, icosahedron) in the presence of thermal fluctuations of their constituent atoms are studied in the framework of the mathematical formalism of structural invariants, presented in part I of this paper. The problem of the choice of a small number of relevant invariants at various temperatures is investigated. The upper bound on the temperature of existence of the close-packed “structural” liquid — the close-packed melt—is estimated. The order-parameter for the description of the structural melt-melt phase transition accompanied by a change of the local structure is discussed. An hierarchic picture of the local structure of condensed matter is proposed.

Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(88)90159-8

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