Kinetics of structural relaxations in a two-dimensional model atomic glass III

Abstract
The kinetics of structural relaxation in a two-dimensional model atomic glass quenched infinitely rapidly from the melt to 0.55 of the glass transition tem perature was simulated by the molecular dynamics methods to study the chronological ordering of the atomic kinematics associated with such relaxations. Over the very short periods of ageing ( ca .200 atomic fluctuations) accessible to the molecular dynamics (MD) method, a Williams-Watts form of relaxation with a fractional exponent of 0.5 was found to hold for excess enthalpy, free volume and site distortion parameter. The distribution of free energy barriers associated with the relaxation that resulted from the analysis could be scaled up to describe processes occurring on macroscopic timescales, and agrees well with experimental results in Cu x Zr 1-x glasses. Results on the clustering of relaxations and other topological features of the relaxation process are also reported.

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