Melting a Copper Cluster: Critical-Droplet Theory
- 1 April 1994
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Europhysics Letters
- Vol. 26 (1) , 51-56
- https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/26/1/009
Abstract
We simulate the melting of a 71 Å diameter cluster of Cu. At low temperatures the crystal exhibits facets. With increasing temperatures the open facets pre-melt, the melted regions coalesce into a liquid envelope containing a crystalline nucleus, and the nucleus finally goes unstable to the supercooled liquid. Using the critical-droplet theory and experimental data for Cu, we explain the thermodynamics of the coexistence region.Keywords
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