Heard of the Erikson-Pitteri Neighborhood?

[scott_alexsk]

Hello,

Has anyone heard of the Erikson-Pitteri Neighborhood? From what I can glean in seems to represent the potentials within crystal structures to revert to other possible stable structures. Here is the place I saw it orginally.

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cond-mat/pdf/0509/0509456.pdf"

Thanks,
-scott

 

[scott_alexsk]

Honestly,no one has any idea? Maybe it is more of a physics question.

-scott