-So why is it amorphous?
-Experiments show crystalline 3C-SiC at the prevailing temperature.
-Short range bond order potentials show overestimated interactions.
+The question of the formation of such an amoprhous phase, although experiments show crystalline 3C-SiC precipitates at prevailing temperatures remains.
+The answer is found in the short range and abrupt cut-off of the employed bond order potential.
+The abrupt cut-off, which ... to zero betwenn the first and second next neighbour distance, is responsible for overestimated and unphysical high forces of next neighboured atoms.