Dislocation-mediated melting theories

Dislocation-mediated melting theories are by far the most popular of the defect-based melting theories, with a correspondingly large literature. The literature on dislocation-mediated melting in 3D up to about 1980 has been reviewed by Cotterill [9,10]. More recently, Edwards and Warner [100] used techniques from polymer physics to treat the statistics of an ensemble of dislocation loops, and found that the interactions between dislocations are screened by a finite density of dislocations,... 

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