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Liquid–liquid transitions

Silicon in silico

Nature Physics volume 7, pages 523–524 (2011)Cite this article

Extensive numerical simulations provide evidence that the thermodynamic behaviour of supercooled silicon is similar to that proposed for supercooled water: a line of liquid–liquid transitions that ends at a critical point. In the case of silicon, however, the critical point occurs at negative pressures.

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Figure 1: Phase diagram of SW silicon.

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  1. Francesco Sciortino is at the Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza – Universita' di Roma, Piazzale A. Moro 5, I-00185 Roma, Italy,

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