The structural origin of the hard-sphere glass transition in granular packing

Xia, Chengjie; Li, Jindong; Cao, Yixin; Kou, Binquan; Xiao, Xianghui; Fezzaa, Kamel; Xiao, Tiqiao; Wang, Yujie

doi:10.1038/ncomms9409

Title: The structural origin of the hard-sphere glass transition in granular packing

Journal Article · Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9409· OSTI ID:1223385

Xia, Chengjie ^[1]; Li, Jindong ^[1]; Cao, Yixin ^[1]; Kou, Binquan ^[1]; Xiao, Xianghui ^[2]; Fezzaa, Kamel ^[2]; Xiao, Tiqiao ^[3]; Wang, Yujie ^[4]

Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai (China)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai (China)
Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai (China); Nanjing Univ., Nanjing (China)

Glass transition is accompanied by a rapid growth of the structural relaxation time and a concomitant decrease of configurational entropy. It remains unclear whether the transition has a thermodynamic origin, and whether the dynamic arrest is associated with the growth of a certain static order. Using granular packing as a model hard-sphere glass, we show the glass transition as a thermodynamic phase transition with a ‘hidden’ polytetrahedral order. This polytetrahedral order is spatially correlated with the slow dynamics. It is geometrically frustrated and has a peculiar fractal dimension. Additionally, as the packing fraction increases, its growth follows an entropy-driven nucleation process, similar to that of the random first-order transition theory. In conclusion, our study essentially identifies a long-sought-after structural glass order in hard-sphere glasses.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

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Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 6; ISSN 2041-1723

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