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Nucleation in Sheared Granular Matter

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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 120, Issue 5, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.055701

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  1. German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
  2. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through the Cluster of Excellence Engineering of Advanced Materials
  3. NSF [DMS-1208941, DMS-1509088]
  4. Robert A. Welch Foundation [F-0805]

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We present an experiment on crystallization of packings of macroscopic granular spheres. This system is often considered to be a model for thermally driven atomic or colloidal systems. Cyclically shearing a packing of frictional spheres, we observe a first order phase transition from a disordered to an ordered state. The ordered state consists of crystallites of mixed fcc and hcp symmetry that coexist with the amorphous bulk. The transition, initiated by homogeneous nucleation, overcomes a barrier at 64.5% volume fraction. Nucleation consists predominantly of the dissolving of small nuclei and the growth of nuclei that have reached a critical size of about ten spheres.

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