Glasses and local packings

Tomaso Aste and Antonio Coniglio

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2003, vol. 330, issue 1, 189-194

Abstract: A cell theory for glassforming liquids, amorphous solids and granular packings, is developed by combining geometrical properties of local packings with the ideas of inherent structures and free volume theory. We show that for hard-spheres the present theory reproduces well the equation of state, the approach to zero of the configurational entropy and the divergence of large relaxation times following both the Vogel–Tammann–Fulcher behavior and the Adam–Gibbs relation.

Keywords: Glasses; Supercooled liquids; Granular matter; Sphere packings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2003.08.005

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