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Corresponding States of Structural Glass Formers

Statistical Mechanics 2010-12-14 v2 Materials Science Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

The variation with respect to temperature T of transport properties of 58 fragile structural glass forming liquids (68 data sets in total) are analyzed and shown to exhibit a remarkable degree of universality. In particular, super-Arrhenius behaviors of all super-cooled liquids appear to collapse to one parabola for which there is no singular behavior at any finite temperature. This behavior is bounded by an onset temperature To above which liquid transport has a much weaker temperature dependence. A similar collapse is also demonstrated, over the smaller available range, for existing numerical simulation data.

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@article{arxiv.0811.2450,
  title  = {Corresponding States of Structural Glass Formers},
  author = {Yael S. Elmatad and David Chandler and Juan P. Garrahan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.2450},
  year   = {2010}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures. Updated References, Table Values, Submitted for Publication

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