Superheating
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Superheating refers to heating a solid to temperatures above its thermodynamic melting point, or a liquid to temperatures above its boiling point.
References
- Related reading
- G. E. Norman; V. V. Stegailov "Simulation of Ideal Crystal Superheating and Decay", Molecular Simulation 30 pp. 397-406 (2004)
- Carl McBride, Carlos Vega, Eduardo Sanz, Luis G. MacDowell and José L. F. Abascal "The range of meta stability of ice-water melting for two simple models of water", Molecular Physics 103 pp. 1-5 (2005)
- Xian-Ming Bai and Mo Li "Differences between solid superheating and liquid supercooling", Journal of Chemical Physics 123 151102 (2005)
- A. B. Belonoshko, N. V. Skorodumova, A. Rosengren, and B. Johansson "Melting and critical superheating", Physical Review B 73 012201 (2006)
- D. Alfè, C. Cazorla, and M. J. Gillan "The kinetics of homogeneous melting beyond the limit of superheating", Journal of Chemical Physics 135 024102 (2011)