Evolution of Microscopic Bond-Orientational Order at Freezing Transitions in Supercooled One-Component Plasmas

Abstract

We report the first microscopic observation by Monte Carlo simulation (N=1458) of how the particle correlations and bond-orientational orders develop in supercooled one-component plasmas at the freezing transitions. It is found that a formation of particle layers expedites a subsequent evolution into a metastable state and that the final states have bcc-crystalline layered structures with an admixture of a few intralayer interstitials.