Figure 1
From: Prediction of pressure-promoted thermal rejuvenation in metallic glasses
(a) Schematic illustration of initial melt-quenching (A→D) and subsequent thermal-pressure loading (D→J) processes. (b) The change in potential energy ΔE of the Zr50Cu40Al10 model induced by the thermal-pressure loading process (D→J). In b, the error bars represent the s.e. of 10 different simulations. The positive and negative pressures indicate compressive and tensile pressures, respectively. The horizontal axis represents the annealing temperature, which is normalised by Tg(Pa) for each pressure condition. In general, Tg depends on the applied pressure condition.31 Therefore, we conducted melt-quenching simulations under different pressure conditions, and computed Tg(Pa) for each Pa from the kink in the quenching process volume–temperature curve (Supplementary Figures S1 and S2).
