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Please contact us (amass-www at mit dot edu) if you are interested in
giving a talk. The following seminars will come in the near future:
Speaker: Goran Grimvall,
Theoretical physics, KTH
Stockholm
Time: 12 noon, Thursday September 27, 2007
Place: MIT, Building 13, Room 3101
Abstract:
It is now exactly 100 years since Einstein introduced his model for the
heat capacity of solids. This is the beginning of condensed matter theory
that rests on a quantum physics description of vibrating atoms. A long
standing problem since these early days is how crystals melt - i.e. how
atoms in an infinite perfect lattice get disordered and form a liquid
state as the temperature is increased. It is only very recently that the
problem has been solved, through molecular dynamics calculations, for fcc
aluminum.
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