- Ultrastable vapor-deposited glasses display uncommon material properties. Most remarkably, upon heating they are believed to melt via a liquid front that originates at the free surface and propagates over a mesoscopic crossover length, before crossing over to bulk melting. We combine swap Monte Carlo with molecular dynamics simulations to prepare and melt isotropic amorphous films of unprecedendtly high kinetic stability. We are able to directly observe both bulk and front melting, and the crossover between them. We measure the front velocity over a broad range of conditions, and a crossover length scale that grows to nearly 400 particle diameters in the regime accessible to simulations. Our ... [Read More]
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- 32 files (71.1 KB)
- Data Citation
- Flenner, E., Berthier, L., Charbonneau, P., & Fullerton, C. (2019). Data from: Front-mediated melting of isotropic ultrastable glasses. Duke Digital Repository. https://doi.org/10.7924/r4542pd2c
- DOI
- 10.7924/r4542pd2c
- Publication Date
- October 8, 2019
- ARK
- ark:/87924/r4542pd2c
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- Publisher
- Type
- Related Materials
- Funding Agency
- National Science Foundation Grants Simons Foundation Grants
- Grant Number
- NSF # DMR-1608086
- NSF # CNS-0923386
- Simons Foundation # 454933 and # 454937
- Contact
- Charbonneau, Patrick; patrick.charbonneau@duke.edu, ORCID: 0000-0001-7174-0821
- Title
- Data from: Front-mediated melting of isotropic ultrastable glasses
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