Quantifying Spatially Heterogeneous Dynamics in Computer Simulations of Glassforming Liquids
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-09-25 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We examine the phenomenon of dynamical heterogeneity in computer simulations of an equilibrium, glass-forming liquid. We describe several approaches to quantify the spatial correlation of single-particle motion, and show that spatial correlations of particle displacements become increasingly long-range as the temperature decreases toward the mode coupling critical temperature.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9812231,
title = {Quantifying Spatially Heterogeneous Dynamics in Computer Simulations of Glassforming Liquids},
author = {Sharon C. Glotzer and Claudio Donati},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9812231},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
To appear in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter