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. 2017 May 1;114(20):E3892–E3899. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1621348114

Fig. S2.

Fig. S2.

Shape change-driven FCCBCC reconfiguration is accompanied by a first-order thermodynamic phase transition in spheric triangle invariant hard polyhedra. (A) Shapes used in umbrella sampling calculation. (B) Second neighbor-averaged l=4 spherical harmonic order parameter Q¯4 distinguishes BCC, FCC, and HCP crystal phases in thermal systems of spheric triangle invariant polyhedra. (C) Below the transition (αc<αc), a metastable FCC free energy basin develops below αc=0.185. (D) Above the transition (αc>αc), the FCC free energy basin becomes dominant above (αc=0.190). Well above the transition (αc=0.215), the BCC free energy basin becomes unstable, but there is a second metastable HCP basin.