Irreversible reorganization in a supercooled liquid originates from localized soft modes

By A. Widmer‐Cooper, H. Perry, P. Harrowell, David R. Reichman. 2008

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A simulation establishes the relationship between structural relaxation in a supercooled liquid and the low-frequency dynamics in the underlying inherent structures.

Subfields: Condensed Matter Physics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry

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Citations in the corpus

The role of local structure in dynamical arrest (2014, methodology): “[330] a connection between the soft modes and a new variable closely related to the propensity was made using contour plots for the d = 2 simulation results.”
Excitations Are Localized and Relaxation Is Hierarchical in Glass-Forming Liquids (2011, neutral): “The former are not causative of dynamics [52], but they are correlated to the latter [53], and the former extends over regions of space that are large compared to the latter [52].”
Revealing Hidden Structural Order Controlling Both Fast and Slow Glassy Dynamics in Supercooled Liquids (2018, background): “The dynamic propensity hΔri is defined in the isoconfigurational ensemble [27,28,30].”
Deformation and flow of amorphous solids: Insights from elastoplastic models (2017, background): “Focusing on vibrational properties, Brito and Wyart (2007) and Widmer-Cooper et al. (2008) provided evidence that in hard-sphere glasses as well as in supercooled liquids the particles that vibrate most in the M lowest energy 12 modes (i.e., those with a high participation fraction in the M softest…”
Modeling the mechanics of amorphous solids at different length scale and time scale (2011, background): “Dynamical heterogeneities have been shown correlated with both localized soft modes [280] and fluctuations of static structural order [126, 253].”
Facets of glass physics (2015, background): “hypothesized that shear transformation zones in glasses are correlated with localized low frequency vibrations [14].”