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On the Bragg, Leibfried, and Modified Leibfried Numbers
Leonid Burakovsky, Dean L. Preston, Richard R. Silbar
The Bragg, Leibfried, and modified Leibfried numbers are defined in the context of a theory of dislocation-mediated melting, and their values are determined from the properties of…
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Melting as a String-Mediated Phase Transition
Leonid Burakovsky, Dean L. Preston, Richard R. Silbar
We present a theory of the melting of elemental solids as a dislocation-mediated phase transition. We model dislocations near melt as non-interacting closed strings on a lattice. I…