Friday, February 22, 2013

1302.5136 (Andrzej Grzybowski et al.)

Dynamic heterogeneity of glass-forming liquids in the density scaling
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Andrzej Grzybowski, Kajetan Koperwas, Karolina Kolodziejczyk, Katarzyna Grzybowska, Marian Paluch
Recent analyses of high pressure measurement data suggest that the degree of the dynamic heterogeneity ({\chi}_4)^max cannot be in general a single variable function of the structural relaxation time {\tau}. For a wide class of real and model supercooled liquids, the molecular dynamics of which obeys a density scaling law at least to a good approximation, we argue that the important relation between the length and time scales that characterize molecular motions near the glass transition is controlled by a density factor. If a power law density scaling is valid for both the structural relaxation times and the degrees of the dynamic heterogeneity we find that the factor is a density power, the exponent of which is a measure of the observed decoupling between {\tau} and ({\chi}_4)^max. Then, the measure can be quantified by a difference between the power law density scaling exponents, which are usually different for {\tau} and ({\chi}_4)^max.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5136

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