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An X-ray Scattering and Simulation Study of the Ordering Kinetics in CuAu

Statistical Mechanics 2009-10-31 v1 Materials Science Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

A detailed numerical and experimental study of the ordering of the low temperature tetragonal phase of CuAu is presented. The numerical simulations are based on a coarse-grained free energy derived from electronic structure calculations of CuAu, while the experimental results are obtained from in situ x-ray scattering. Both theoretical and experimental work indicate a subtle kinetic competition between the ordered tetragonal phase and the metastable modulated phase.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9806141,
  title  = {An X-ray Scattering and Simulation Study of the Ordering Kinetics in CuAu},
  author = {K. R. Elder and Oana Malis and Karl Ludwig and Bulbul Chakraborty and Nigel Goldenfeld},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9806141},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Submitted to EuroPhysics Letters 6 pages, 4 figures, tared and gziped