Calculation of critical nucleation rates by the persistent embryo method: application to quasi hard sphere models

Using the persistent embryo method (PEM), we investigate the nucleation of quasi hard-sphere liquids and the shape of the critical nucleus.

T1 process and dynamics in glass-forming hard-sphere liquids

To study the relationship between dynamics and structure in a glass-forming liquid, we introduce a purely geometric criterion for locally mobile particles in a dense hard-sphere fluid: namely, “T1-active” particles, which can gain or lose at least one Voronoi neighbor by moving within their free volume with other particles fixed.