PHYSICS Correction for “Formation of a crystal nucleus from liquid,” by Takeshi Kawasaki and Hajime Tanaka, which appeared in issue 32, August 10, 2010, of Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (107:14036–14041; first published July 27, 2010; 10.1073/pnas.1001040107).
The authors note that Fig. 6 appeared incorrectly. The corrected figure and its legend appear below. This error does not affect the conclusions of the article.
Fig. 6.
Crystal nucleation dynamics. (A) Temporal change of the number of crystal nuclei for a system of N = 4,096 (SI Text). From the rate of the increase in the number of crystal nuclei, we estimated the crystal nucleation frequency I. The numbers in the figure indicate the volume fraction φ. (B) The volume fraction ϕ dependence of the reduced crystal nucleation frequency Ir for our work, the numerical estimate by Auer and Frenkel (15), and the experimental work by Sinn et al. (17). Curves are guides to the eye. We also show the results for three different system sizes (N = 1,024, 4,096, and 16,834), which indicate few finite size effects for N ≥ 4,096. Here we use the volume fraction ϕ estimated with σeff = 1.0953σ. Here BD stands for Brownian Dynamics simulations of the WCA system and HS stands for event-driven Molecular Dynamics simulations of the hard sphere system.