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Structural relaxation in a supercooled molecular liquid

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We perform molecular-dynamics simulations of a molecular system in supercooled states for different values of inertia parameters to provide evidence that the long-time dynamics depends only on the equilibrium structure. This observation is consistent with the prediction of the mode-coupling theory for the glass transition and with the hypothesis that the potential energy-landscape controls the slow dynamics. We also find that dynamical properties at intermediate wavenumber depend on the spatial correlation of the molecule's geometrical center.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0309068,
  title  = {Structural relaxation in a supercooled molecular liquid},
  author = {S. -H. Chong and F. Sciortino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0309068},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages, 4 figures, Europhys. Lett. in press