Supplemental Material: Nucleation in sheared granular matter

The movie shows the nucleation of spheres in the shear cell. For visualization the spheres that are in a crystalline state are shown in a rotating side view. Color indicates the crystal symmetry. At the top right the current state is specified by the global packing fraction, shear cycle, and the number of crystalline spheres. The end of the plateau in the packing fraction is marked by the appearance of the first growing nucleus, which is encircled in the rotating animation and depicted at a constant viewing perspective on the lower right. The wire frame indicates the inner part of the cell, while the green and brown frames are parallel to the shear walls. The bottom of the interrogation volume is cut non-orthogonally because of optical accessibility.