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Aging in a free-energy landscape model for glassy relaxation

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

The aging properties of a simple free-energy landscape model for the primary relaxation in supercooled liquids are investigated. The intermediate scattering function and the rotational correlation functions are calculated for the generic situation of a quench from a high temperature to below the glass transition temperature. It is found that the re-equilibration of molecular orientations takes longer than for translational degrees of freedom. The time scale for re-equilibration is determined by that of the primary relaxation as an intrinsic property of the model.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0508461,
  title  = {Aging in a free-energy landscape model for glassy relaxation},
  author = {Gregor Diezemann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0508461},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17 pages, 10 figures