Sengupta, Surajit; Rao, Madan - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 318 (2003) 1, pp. 251-261
We examine in detail, through extensive molecular dynamics simulations, the process of nucleation of a triangular phase in a model two-dimensional square crystal consisting of particles interacting via a pair and three-body potentials. We find that at high temperatures, the critical nucleus of...