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Dynamics and effective thermodynamics of a model structural glass

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/5/29/001
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  1. National Research Council of Canada. NRC Industrial Materials Institute
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Abstract
The authors use Monte Carlo methods to investigate a purely dynamical model for structural glasses. They observe stretched exponential decays of the equilibrium autocorrelation function and measure the late-time relaxation times tau . These diverge with temperature following a Vogel-Fulcher law. They also study systems which are quenched deeply and then re-heated. This gives a peak in the effective specific heat with properties matching those of the glass transition. The model thus reproduces the main phenomenology of glasses and the glass transition.
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  • Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 5, no. 29: L349–L354.
LanguageEnglish
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NRC numberNRCC 34359
NRC-IMI92AP-11300-1340-G
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