Dynamical solid-liquid transition through oscillatory shear
Soft Condensed Matter
2021-08-10 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
Starting from an ideal crystalline state, we numerically study a nonequilibrium dynamical order- disorder transition promoted by the application of a periodic shearing protocol at low temperatures in model systems in two and three dimensions. We observe a continuous (2D) and discontinuous (3D) dynamical transition from an ordered to a disordered steady state. Through the analysis of large-scale simulations, we show that the amorphization mechanism around the discontinuous transition is reminiscent of spinodal decomposition.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1809.08874,
title = {Dynamical solid-liquid transition through oscillatory shear},
author = {Eric Brillaux and Francesco Turci},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.08874},
year = {2021}
}