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Free energy of cluster formation and a new scaling relation for the nucleation rate

Free energy of cluster formation and a new scaling relation for the nucleation rate

Recent very large molecular dynamics simulations of homogeneous nucleation with $(1-8) \cdot 10^9$ Lennard-Jones atoms [Diemand et al. J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 139}, 074309 (2013)] allow us to accurately determine the formation free energy of clusters over a wide range of cluster sizes. This is now possible because such large …