Space-time approach to microstructure selection in solid-solid transitions

Details Space-time approach to microstructure selection in solid-solid transitions Space-time approach to microstructure selection in solid-solid transitions

2010-01-20

arxiv.org/abs/1001.3549v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages 4 pdf figures and 1 supplementary file (pdf)

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Nucleation of a solid in solid is initiated by the appearance of distinct dynamical heterogeneities, consisting of `active' particles whose trajectories show an abrupt transition from ballistic to diffusive, coincident with the discontinuous transition in microstructure from a {\it twinned martensite} to {\it ferrite}. The active particles exhibit intermittent jamming and flow. The nature of active particle trajectories decides the fate of the transforming solid -- on suppressing single particle diffusion, the transformation proceeds via rare string-like correlated excitations, giving rise to twinned martensitic nuclei. These string-like excitations flow along ridges in the potential energy topography set up by inactive particles. We characterize this transition using a thermodynamics in the space of trajectories in terms of a dynamical action for the active particles confined by the inactive particles. Our study brings together the physics of glass, jamming, plasticity and solid nucleation.

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