Hard knock for thermodynamics

Salvatore Torquato ()
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Salvatore Torquato: Princeton University

Nature, 2000, vol. 405, issue 6786, 521-523

Abstract: An amorphous or ‘glass’ structure can be created when a liquid is cooled quickly. It has long been debated whether this transition involves an underlying thermodynamic or kinetic change. A model system of hard spheres supports the second view.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1038/35014711

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