
We present preliminary results from large scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of homogenous vapor to liquid nucleation. The simulations contain between one and eight billion Lennard-Jones atoms and were run for up to 56 million time-steps. The large particle numbers (over 104 times larger than previous simulations, see e.g. [2]) have several advantages: i) Resolving and quantifying nucleation at low supersaturations becomes possible within an accessible number of simulation time-steps, in spite of the very slow nucleation. ii) Even after forming many stable droplets the depletion of the vapor phase is negligible, i.e. the supersaturation remains constant during the simulations. iii) Excellent statistics on liquid droplet abundances and microscopic properties over a wide range in droplet sizes. iv) Simulations can be run efficiently on a large number of cpus. First, direct comparisons to laboratory experiments[6] are now possible: we find excellent agreement in the nucleation rates at kT = 0.3e and s...
530 Physics, 10231 Department of Astrophysics, 3100 General Physics and Astronomy
530 Physics, 10231 Department of Astrophysics, 3100 General Physics and Astronomy
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