Universal Nucleation Behavior of Sheared Systems

Amrita Goswami; Indranil Saha Dalal; Jayant K. Singh

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.195702

Universal Nucleation Behavior of Sheared Systems

Amrita Goswami, Indranil Saha Dalal, Jayant K. Singh

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Abstract

Using molecular simulations and a modified classical nucleation theory, we study the nucleation, under flow, of a variety of liquids: different water models, Lennard-Jones, and hard sphere colloids. Our approach enables us to analyze a wide range of shear rates inaccessible to brute-force simulations. Our results reveal that the variation of the nucleation rate with shear is universal. A simplified version of the theory successfully captures the nonmonotonic temperature dependence of the nucleation behavior, which is shown to originate from the violation of the Stokes-Einstein relation.

Original language	English
Article number	195702
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	126
Issue number	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.195702
Publication status	Published - 12 May 2021

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This work was supported by the Science and Engineering Research Board (sanction number STR/2019/000090 and CRG/2019/001325). Computational resources were provided by the HPC cluster of the Computer Center (CC), Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

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