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The Influence on Crystal Nucleation of an Order-Disorder Transition among the Subcritical Clusters
Richard K. Bowles, Peter Harrowell
Studies of nucleation generally focus on the properties of the critical cluster, but the presence of defects within the crystal lattice means that the population of nuclei necessar…
A General Structural Order Parameter for the Amorphous Solidification of a Supercooled Liquid
Gang Sun, Peter Harrowell
The persistent problem posed by the glass transition is to develop a general atomic level description of a solidification process that is not associated with any change in the symm…
The Structure and Thermodynamic Stability of Reverse Micelles in Dry AOT/Alkane Mixtures
Adam Wootton, Francois Picavez, Peter Harrowell
Monte Carlo simulation studies of reverse micelles of an anionic surfactant, sodium AOT, in a non-polar solvent provide strong evidence that, in the absence of water, these cluster…
Translational-Rotational Coupling during the Scattering of a Frictional Sphere from a Flat Surface
Yueran Wang, Peter Harrowell
At a macroscopic level, concepts such as top spin, back spin and rolling are commonly used to describe the collision of balls and surfaces. Each term refers to an aspect of the cou…
Deposition control of model glasses with surface-mediated orientational order
Stephen Whitelam, Peter Harrowell
We introduce a minimal model of solid-forming anisotropic molecules that displays, in thermal equilibrium, surface orientational order without bulk orientational order. The model r…
How Real are Liquid Groundstates? Ultra-Fast Crystal Growth and the Susceptibility of Energy Minima in Liquids
Gang Sun, Peter Harrowell
We calculate the degree to which the final structure of the local groundstate in a liquid is a function of the strength of a perturbing potential applied during energy minimization…