Wang, Jinghan; Li, Ju; Yip, Sidney; Wolf, Dieter; … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 240 (1997) 1, pp. 396-403
The criteria formulated by M. Born for the onset of melting (1939) and lattice stability (1940) are re-examined on the basis of more general considerations of elastic instabilities. With the aid of molecular dynamics simulations, we show that (1) Born's stability criteria are valid only in the...