Cavitation in liquid metal

This is work by Timur Bazhirov, Genri Norman and Vladimir Stegailov (Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences) on homogeneous cavitation in a liquid metal under negative pressure.

The graph and the animation illustrate spontaneous formation of a bubble in liquid Pb under temperatures and pressures close to the spinodal. Atoms are colored by their coordination number. The visualization was done with the AtomEye program.