A thermodynamic theory of supercooled liquids

Daniel Kivelson, Steven A. Kivelson, Xiaolin Zhao, Zohar Nussinov and Gilles Tarjus

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1995, vol. 219, issue 1, 27-38

Abstract: A novel thermodynamic theory of the properties of supercooled liquids as they get glassy is presented. It is based on the postulated existence of a narrowly avoided thermodynamic phase transition at a temperature T∗ ⩾ Tm, where Tm is the melting point, and the “avoidance” is due to geometric frustration. We show that as a consequence two large emergent length scales develop at temperatures less than T∗, and we also show that this picture is consistent with appropriate statistical mechanical models. A theoretical expression is obtained which permits collapse of the viscosity versus temperature of all known glass-formers onto a single master-curve.

Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(95)00140-3

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