Search for a thermodynamic basis for the glass transition

Chandan Dasgupta and Sriram Ramaswamy

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1992, vol. 186, issue 1, 314-326

Abstract: We present the results of two numerical studies of the glass transition. In the first, we show that the Ramakrishnan-Yussouff density functional for hard spheres has, at large enough packing fraction, a large number of metastable minima corresponding to frozen, inhomogeneous, but not periodic or quasiperiodic density configurations. These minima are mean-field glassy states. The second work is a molecular dynamics simulation of Lennard-Jones mixtures, which finds a complete absence of spatial scale-dependence in the growth of relaxation times near the glass transition. This is evidence against the interpretation of the glass transition as a continous phase transition.

Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(92)90386-5

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