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Measuring the Densities of Aqueous Glasses at Cryogenic Temperatures
Published on: June 28, 2017
Crystallization of a supercooled liquid and of a glass: Ising model approach
1Department of Physics, A. Mickiewicz University, 61-614 Poznan, Poland.
Abstract:
Using Monte Carlo simulations we study crystallization in the three-dimensional Ising model with four-spin interaction. We monitor the morphology of crystals which grow after placing crystallization seeds in a supercooled liquid. Defects in such crystals constitute an intricate and very stable network that separates various domains by tensionless domain walls. We also show that the crystallization which occurs during the continuous heating of the glassy phase takes place at a heating-rate-dependent temperature.
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