Abstract:A monatomic simple liquid in two dimensions, where atoms interact isotropically through the LennardJones-Gauss potential [M. Engel, H.-R. Trebin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 225505 (2007)], is vitrified by the use of a rapid cooling technique in a molecular dynamics simulation. Transformation to a crystalline state is investigated at various temperatures and the time-temperature-transformation (TTT) curve is determined. It is found that the transformation time to a crystalline state is the shortest at a temerature 14% below the melting temperature T and that at temperatures below T ≡ 0 6T the transformation time is much longer than the available CPU time. This indicates that a long-lived glassy state is realized for T ≤ T .