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Using two extremely different models of glass formers in two and three dimensions we demonstrate how to encode the subtle changes in the geometric rearrangement of particles during the scenario of the glass transition. We construct a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Laurent Boue , Edan Lerner , Itamar Procaccia , Jacques Zylberg

In this paper we develop a theory to calculate the structural relaxation time {\tau} {\alpha} of fragile su percooled liquids. Using the information of the configurational entropy and structure we calculate the number of dynamically free,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-07 Ankit Singh , Sarika Maitra Bhattacharyya , Yashwant Singh

We show that the slowing of the dynamics in simulations of several model glass-forming liquids is equivalent to the hard-sphere glass transition in the low-pressure limit. In this limit, we find universal behavior of the relaxation time by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-12-17 Ning Xu , Thomas K. Haxton , Andrea J. Liu , Sidney R. Nagel

Amorphous glass-forming polymers exhibit multiple relaxation processes, including the structural {\alpha}-relaxation associated with the glass transition and faster secondary relaxations that typically follow Arrhenius behavior. Recently, a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-10 Valeriy V. Ginzburg , Oleg V. Gendelman , Simone Napolitano , Riccardo Casalini , Alessio Zaccone

We theoretically investigate glass transition behaviors of the glassy graphene in a wide range of temperature, where this amorphous graphene is described as a hard-sphere fluid. The dynamic arrest of a particle is assumingly caused by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-03-11 Tran Dinh Cuong , Anh D. Phan , Katsunori Wakabayashi , Pham Thanh Huy

The process of structural relaxation in disordered solids subjected to repeated tension-compression loading is studied using molecular dynamics simulations. The binary glass is prepared by rapid cooling well below the glass transition…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-04 Pritam Kumar Jana , Nikolai V. Priezjev

We use dynamic light scattering and computer simulations to study equilibrium dynamics and dynamic heterogeneity in concentrated suspensions of colloidal hard spheres. Our study covers an unprecedented density range and spans seven decades…

We study the nature of the glass transition by cooling model atomistic glass formers at constant rate from a temperature above the onset of glassy dynamics to $T=0$. Motivated by the East model, a kinetically constrained lattice model with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-16 Alexander Hudson , Kranthi K. Mandadapu

It has recently become possible to prepare ultrastable glassy materials characterised by structural relaxation times which vastly exceed the duration of any feasible experiment. Similarly, new algorithms have led to the production of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-23 Ludovic Berthier , Mark D. Ediger

The earlier paper of this same title demonstrated a collapse of relaxation data of fragile supercooled glass forming liquids [\textit{J. Phys. Chem. B} \textbf{113}, 5563-5567 (2009)]. For temperature $T$ below that of the onset to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-31 Yael S. Elmatad , David Chandler , Juan P. Garrahan

Using a general model for the equilibrium dynamics of supercooled liquids, I compute from molecular properties the emergent length and time scales that govern the nonequilibrium relaxation behavior of amorphous ice prepared by rapid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 David T. Limmer

We investigate the response of a system of hard spheres to two classes of perturbations over a range of densities spanning the fluid, crystalline, and glassy regimes within a molecular dynamics framework. Firstly, we consider the relaxation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-04 Matthew Kafker , Xerxes D. Arsiwalla

There is a certain consensus that the very fast growth of the relaxation time $\tau$ occurring in glass-forming liquids on lowering the temperature must be due to the thermally activated rearrangement of correlated regions of growing size.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-19 Chiara Cammarota , Andrea Cavagna , Giacomo Gradenigo , Tomas S. Grigera , Paolo Verrocchio

In the mode coupling theory of the liquid to glass transition the long time structural relaxation follows from equations solely determined by equilibrium structural parameters. The present extension of these structural relaxation equations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-08 M. Fuchs , Th. Voigtmann

The mode-coupling theory of the glass transition treats the dynamics of supercooled liquids in terms of two-point density correlation functions. Here we consider a generalized, hierarchical formulation of schematic mode-coupling equations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-27 Liesbeth M. C. Janssen , Peter Mayer , David R. Reichman

In the vicinity of the glass transition, the characteristic relaxation time (e.g., the alpha-relaxation time in dielectric spectroscopy) of a glass-former exhibits a strongly super-Arrhenius temperature dependence, as compared to the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-16 Valeriy V. Ginzburg , Oleg Gendelman , Riccardo Casalini , Alessio Zaccone

Using molecular dynamics simulations, we study the slow dynamics of supercooled liquids confined in a random matrix of immobile obstacles. We study the dynamical crossover from glass-like to Lorentz-gas-like behavior in terms of the density…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-05-30 Kang Kim , Kunimasa Miyazaki , Shinji Saito

We study glassy dynamics using a simulation of three soft Brownian particles confined to a two-dimensional circular region. If the circular region is large, the disks freely rearrange, but rearrangements are rarer for smaller system sizes.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-07-06 Xin Du , Eric R. Weeks

We review a new theory of viscoelasticity of a glass-forming viscous liquid near and below the glass transition. In our model we assume that each point in the material has a specific viscosity, which varies randomly in space according to a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-04-27 Walter Schirmacher , Giancarlo Ruocco , Valerio Mazzone

Molecular dynamics simulations of a Lennard-Jones binary mixture confined in a disordered array of soft spheres are presented. The single particle dynamical behavior of the glass former is examined upon supercooling. Predictions of mode…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Gallo , R. Pellarin , M. Rovere