A simple demonstration of a metastable state

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1109-1110

  Menon, Narayanan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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EID: 0033262127     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.19092     Document Type: Article

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4. Schematic potential energy hypersurfaces of this kind were popularized by M. Goldstein, "Viscous liquids and the glass transition: a potential energy barrier picture," J. Chem. Phys. 51, 3728-3739 (1969). For a recent review, see F. H. Stillinger, "A topographic view of supercooled liquids and glass formation," Science 267, 1935-1939 (1995).
5. Schematic potential energy hypersurfaces of this kind were popularized by M. Goldstein, "Viscous liquids and the glass transition: a potential energy barrier picture," J. Chem. Phys. 51, 3728-3739 (1969). For a recent review, see F. H. Stillinger, "A topographic view of supercooled liquids and glass formation," Science 267, 1935-1939 (1995).
6. 3: crystallization, densification and crystallization anomaly," Phys. Chem. Glasses 8, 1-9 (1967). It is conjectured that this effect is due to the presence of two different crystalline forms which are comparable in energy.