Ab-initio calculations for the structural properties of Zr-Nb alloys at different values of the niobium concentration are done at zero temperature. Different cases for Zr-Nb alloys with unit cells having BCC and HCP ...

Motivated by recent research of Nikitin et al. [J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 2009, 49, 055301], we examine the effects of interatomic interactions on adatom surface diffusion. By using a mean-field approach in the random walk ...

Bi₄Ti₃O₁₂-PVC composites were fabricated. Ceramics powders of bismuth titanate were prepared by the sol-gel method using bismuth nitrate pentahydrate Bi(NO₃)₃⋅₅H₂O and tetrabutyl titanate Ti(CH₃(CH₂)₃O)₄ as precursors. The ...

The equation of state is investigated for an Ising-like model in the framework of collective variables method. The peculiar feature of the theory is that a non-classical van der Waals loop is obtained. The results are ...

A story from scientific folklore mentions two principal types of scientists. Scientists of the first type follow a ballistic approach in their research: they go far in a chosen direction, but the area they cover is negligibly ...

Thermodynamic perturbation theory for cetral-force (TPT-CF) type of associating potential is used to study the phase behavior of symmetric binary mixture of associating particles with spherically symmetric interaction. The ...

Following a fairly comprehensive study on popular interaction potentials of water (Pusztai et al 2008, J. Chem. Phys., 129, 184103), here two more recent, polarizable potential sets, SWM4-DP (Lamoureux et al., Chem. Phys. ...

We establish the critical line of the one-component Φ⁴ (or Landau-Ginzburg) model on a simple four dimensional cubic lattice. Our study is performed in the framework of the non-perturbative renormalization group in the ...

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