Polydisperse hard spheres: crystallization kinetics in small systems and role of local structure
- Publication type:
- Journal article
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- Autoren
- Matteo Campo
- Thomas Speck
- DOI
- 10.1088/1742-5468/2016/8/084007
- eISSN
- 1742-5468
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 8
- Zeitschrift
- Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
- Online publication date
- 2016
- Paginierung
- 084007 - 084007
- Status
- Published online
- Herausgeber
- IOP Publishing
- Herausgeber URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2016/8/084007
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2020
- Titel
- Polydisperse hard spheres: crystallization kinetics in small systems and role of local structure
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 2016
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- Abstract
- We study numerically the crystallization of a hard-sphere mixture with 8\% polydispersity. Although often used as a model glass former, for small system sizes we observe crystallization in molecular dynamics simulations. This opens the possibility to study the competition between crystallization and structural relaxation of the melt, which typically is out of reach due to the disparate timescales. We quantify the dependence of relaxation and crystallization times on density and system size. For one density and system size we perform a detailed committor analysis to investigate the suitability of local structures as order parameters to describe the crystallization process. We find that local structures are strongly correlated with generic bond order and add little information to the reaction coordinate.
- Autoren
- Matteo Campo
- Thomas Speck
- Autoren-URL
- http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.00094v1
- Zeitschrift
- J. Stat. Mech. (2016) 084007
- Schlüsselwörter
- cond-mat.soft
- cond-mat.soft
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2016
- Herausgeber URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2016/8/084007
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2016
- Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde
- 2016
- Titel
- Polydisperse hard spheres: Crystallization kinetics in small systems and role of local structure
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1605.00094v1.pdf
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