Crystallization of Hard-Sphere Glasses
Crystallization of Hard-Sphere Glasses
We study by molecular dynamics the interplay between arrest and crystallization in hard spheres. For state points in the plane of volume fraction ($0.54\ensuremath{\le}\ensuremath{\phi}\ensuremath{\le}0.63$) and polydispersity ($0\ensuremath{\le}s\ensuremath{\le}0.085$), we delineate states that spontaneously crystallize from those that do not. For noncrystallizing (or precrystallization) samples we find isodiffusivity lines consistent with an …