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Emergence of Long-range Correlations and Rigidity at the Dynamic Glass Transition

Statistical Mechanics 2015-05-28 v1

Abstract

At the microscopic level, equilibrium liquid's translational symmetry is spontaneously broken at the so-called dynamic glass transition predicted by the mean-field replica approach. We show that this fact implies the emergence of Goldstone modes and long-range density correlations. We derive and evaluate a new statistical mechanical expression for the glass shear modulus.

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@article{arxiv.1105.3578,
  title  = {Emergence of Long-range Correlations and Rigidity at the Dynamic Glass Transition},
  author = {Grzegorz Szamel and Elijah Flenner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.3578},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages