Molecular-dynamics study of long-lived structures in a fragile glass-forming liquid
- 1 May 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 57 (5) , 5707-5718
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.57.5707
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
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