On asymmetry between superheating and supercooling in solid-liquid transitions: Landau models.
We investigated the asymmetry between superheating and supercooling in solid-liquid transitions using two Landau-type models for the first-order phase transitions, the Landau-Devonshire and Landau-de Gennes models. The Landau models reproduced the asymmetric behavior described by the classical nucleation theory.
P-24 Plasma Physics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA. sluo@lanl.gov
Sheng-Nian
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Luo
Damian C
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Swift