Growing point-to-set length scale correlates with growing relaxation times in model supercooled liquids.

It has been demonstrated recently that supercooled liquids sharing simple structural features (e.g. pair distribution functions) may exhibit strikingly distinct dynamical behavior. Here we show that a more subtle structural feature correlates with relaxation times in three simulated systems that have nearly identical radial distribution functions but starkly different dynamical behavior. In particular, for the first time we determine the thermodynamic "point-to-set" length scale in several canonical model systems and demonstrate the quantitative connection between this length scale and the growth of relaxation times. Our results provide clues necessary for distinguishing competing theories of the glass transition.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Physical Review Letters

• Publication date

  2012-01-13

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics

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  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.225506arXiv 1201.2888PMID 23003622
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