Nonlinear Susceptibility and Dynamical Length Scale of Glassy Systems

Journal Article · Thu Feb 21 00:00:00 EST 2008 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2897776· OSTI ID:21055392

Miyazaki, K ^[1]; Biroli, G ^[2]; Bouchaud, J -P ^[3]; Reichman, D R ^[4]

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1. Research Institute of Kochi University of Technology, Tosa Yamada, Kochi 782-8502 (Japan)
2. Service de Physique Theorique, Orme des Merisiers CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex (France)
3. Service de Physique de l'Etat Condense, Orme des Merisiers CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex (France)
4. Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, 3000 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 (United States)

It is known that spatially heterogeneous dynamical structures are the cause of the drastic slowing down of atomic motion near the glass transition. Whereas tremendous progress has been made towards characterizing such structures by numerical and experimental studies, no microscopic theory has been developed for the multipoint correlation functions that characterize such behavior. We have extended the standard mode-coupling theory to the calculation of such quantities and succeeded in describing the growing dynamical structures.

• OSTI ID: 21055392
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 982, Issue 1; Conference: 5. international workshop on complex systems, Sendai (Japan), 25-28 Sep 2007; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2897776; (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
CORRELATION FUNCTIONS
CORRELATIONS
COUPLING
GLASS
LENGTH
NONLINEAR PROBLEMS
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
SLOWING-DOWN