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Effect of pressure on the number of dynamically correlated molecules when approaching the glass transition

Soft Condensed Matter 2015-06-12 v1

Abstract

We characterize the heterogeneous character of the dynamics of liquids approaching the glass transition through an experimental determination of the number of dynamically correlated molecules N_{corr} as obtained from dynamical susceptibilities. To do so, we have obtained a new set of dielectric spectroscopy data for liquid dibutyl-phtalate on a fine and extended temperature and pressure grid, and we have used it in conjunction with high-pressure data from the literature. We have been able to evaluate the contributions to N_{corr} that are due to fluctuations associated with density and with temperature separately, thereby improving the estimate of N_{corr}. We find that N_{corr} increases along the glass transition line, and more generally along any isochronic line, as pressure increases (up to 1 GPa), a result which is at odds with recent reports and theoretical predictions.

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@article{arxiv.1301.2451,
  title  = {Effect of pressure on the number of dynamically correlated molecules when approaching the glass transition},
  author = {Christiane Alba-Simionesco and Cecile Dalle-Ferrier and Gilles Tarjus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.2451},
  year   = {2015}
}

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To appear in the proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on "Slow Dynamics in Complex Systems" (Sendai, Japan)