Fig. 1: Pressure and quench rate dependence of the glass-forming ability. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Pressure and quench rate dependence of the glass-forming ability.

From: Connecting glass-forming ability of binary mixtures of soft particles to equilibrium melting temperatures

Fig. 1: Pressure and quench rate dependence of the glass-forming ability.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

a, b are for harmonic and RLJ systems, respectively, with γ = 1.4, cB = 0.5, and Δ = 0. The solid and empty symbols are χA and χB, respectively. Circles, squares, and diamonds are for dimensionless quench rate \(\tilde{\kappa }=8.16\times {10}^{-11}\), 8.16 × 10−10, and 8.16 × 10−9, respectively. The lines are guides for the eye. The vertical dot-dashed line in a shows the crossover pressure pn ≈ 0.14 (also shown in Fig. 2a for comparison), at which the melting temperatures of A and B particles intersect and χA is approximately equal to χB, as discussed in the text. c Snapshots of solid-like states for harmonic systems. From top to bottom, \(\tilde{\kappa }\) decreases. From left to right, pressure p increases with the values being shown at the bottom. The yellow and blue disks are A (large) and B (small) particles. To distinguish particles, we have moderately decreased the particle diameters by 10–25%.

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