Hard-sphere nucleation times increase by roughly 6-fold per 0.1% volume fraction below about 53%, making spontaneous coexistence dynamically inaccessible over most of the coexistence window.
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Reply to Smallenburg: Near-melting nucleation and the exponential growth of hard-sphere nucleation times
Hard-sphere nucleation times increase by roughly 6-fold per 0.1% volume fraction below about 53%, making spontaneous coexistence dynamically inaccessible over most of the coexistence window.