Computer simulation of crystal nucleation of parallel hard spherocylinders

J.A.C. Veerman and D. Frenkel

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1989, vol. 156, issue 2, 599-612

Abstract: We report a molecular dynamics study of homogeneous nucleation in a fluid of parallel hard spherocylinders. It is found that the rate of nucleation of the crystal depends strongly on the presence of a nearby metastable smectic phase.

Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(89)90083-6

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