Viscoelasticity and metastability limit in supercooled liquids |
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Authors: | Cavagna Andrea Attanasi Alessandro Lorenzana José |
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Institution: | Centre for Statistical Mechanics and Complexity, INFM, Via dei Taurini 19, 00185 Roma, Italy. |
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Abstract: | A supercooled liquid is said to have a kinetic spinodal if a temperature Tsp exists below which the liquid relaxation time exceeds the crystal nucleation time. We revisit classical nucleation theory taking into account the viscoelastic response of the liquid to the formation of crystal nuclei and find that the kinetic spinodal is strongly influenced by elastic effects. We introduce a dimensionless parameter lambda, which is essentially the ratio between the infinite frequency shear modulus and the enthalpy of fusion of the crystal. In systems where lambda is larger than a critical value lambda(c) the metastability limit is totally suppressed, independently of the surface tension. On the other hand, if lambda
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