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Fitting the structural relaxation time of glass-forming liquids: single- or multi-branch approach?

Materials Science 2010-09-03 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

Generally there are two strategies in fitting the measured structural relaxation time of glass-forming liquids: the single-formula approach e.g. the Vogel-Tammann-Fulcher equation,and the multi-branch approach. In this note, a two-branch method was presented. By analyzing existing single- and multi-branch approaches, I am trying to recall the attention of researchers in this field to the possibilities of the multi-branch approach.

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@article{arxiv.1009.0315,
  title  = {Fitting the structural relaxation time of glass-forming liquids: single- or multi-branch approach?},
  author = {Lianwen Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.0315},
  year   = {2010}
}

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7 pages, 1 figure