The instability of Alexander-McTague crystals and its implication for nucleation
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-07 v1 Materials Science
Abstract
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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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0104342,
title = {The instability of Alexander-McTague crystals and its implication for nucleation},
author = {W. Klein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0104342},
year = {2009}
}
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20 pages, 0 figures, submitted to Physical Review E