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Analysis of Dislocation Mechanism for Melting of Elements

Leonid Burakovsky, Dean L. Preston

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0003494

Abstract

The melting of elemental solids is modelled as a dislocation-mediated transition on a lattice. Statistical mechanics of linear defects is used to obtain a new relation between melting temperature, crystal structure, atomic volume, and shear modulus that is accurate to 17% for at least half of the Periodic Table.

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