Shrinking stacking fault through glide of the Shockley partial dislocation in hard-sphere crystal under gravity

Atsushi Mori, Yoshihisa Suzuki, Shin-ichiro Yanagiya +2

Disappearance of a stacking fault in the hard-sphere crystal under gravity, such as reported by Zhu et al. [Nature 387 (1997) 883], has successfully been demonstrated by Monte Carl…