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Universal and non-universal features of glassy relaxation in propylene carbonate

Soft Condensed Matter 2015-06-24 v1

Abstract

It is demonstrated that the susceptibility spectra of supercooled propylene carbonate as measured by depolarized-light-scattering, dielectric-loss, and incoherent quasi-elastic neutron-scattering spectroscopy within the GHz window are simultaneously described by the solutions of a two-component schematic model of the mode-coupling theory (MCT) for the evolution of glassy dynamics. It is shown that the universal beta-relaxation-scaling laws, dealing with the asymptotic behavior of the MCT solutions, describe the qualitative features of the calculated spectra. But the non-universal corrections to the scaling laws render it impossible to achieve a complete quantitative description using only the leading-order-asymptotic results.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0001188,
  title  = {Universal and non-universal features of glassy relaxation in propylene carbonate},
  author = {W. Gotze and Th. Voigtmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0001188},
  year   = {2015}
}

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37 pages, 16 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. E