Observation of a Metastability Limit in Liquid Gallium
- 15 December 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 35 (24), 1652-1655
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.35.1652
Abstract
We report neutron-scattering measurements on highly supercooled liquid gallium droplets showing a vanishing quasi-elastic frequency width as the temperature is reduced. The width tends towards zero at a temperature within 1 standard deviation of the value K at which gallium is always observed to become crystalline. This suggests the interpretation of as a metastability limit, below which the liquid state becomes unstable with respect to infinitesimal fluctuations.
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