Molecular Dynamics Study of Long-Lived Structures in a Fragile Glass Forming Liquid

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5 January 1998

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9801016

Abstract

We present molecular dynamics results for a two component, two-dimensional Lennard-Jones supercooled liquid near the glass transition. We find that the supercooled liquid is spatially heterogeneous and that there are long-lived clusters whose size distribution satisfies a scaling relation up to a cutoff. The similarity of several properties of the supercooled liquid to those of a mean-field glass-forming fluid near the spinodal suggests that the glass transition in the supercooled liquid is associated with an underlying thermodynamic instability.

Keywords

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS
SUPERCOOLED LIQUID
DYNAMICS RESULTS
GLASS TRANSITION
GLASS FORMING
FRAGILE GLASS
LONG LIVED

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Version 1, 1998-01-05, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review E, 57 (5), 5707.

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