The instability of Alexander-McTague crystals and its implication for nucleation

Details The instability of Alexander-McTague crystals and its implication for nucleation The instability of Alexander-McTague crystals and its implication for nucleation

2001-04-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104342v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

20 pages, 0 figures, submitted to Physical Review E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.64.056110

We show that the argument of Alexander and McTague, that the bcc crystalline structure is favored in those crystallization processes where the first order character is not too pronounced, is not correct. We find that any solution that satisfies the Alexander-McTague condition is not stable. We investigate the implication of this result for nucleation near the pseudo- spinodal in near-meanfield systems.

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