Minimal cooling speed for glass transition in a simple solvable energy landscape model

J. Quetzalcóatl Toledo-Marín, Isaac Pérez Castillo and Gerardo G. Naumis

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016, vol. 451, issue C, 227-236

Abstract: The minimal cooling speed required to form a glass is obtained for a simple solvable energy landscape model. The model, made from a two-level system modified to include the topology of the energy landscape, is able to capture either a glass transition or a crystallization depending on the cooling rate. In this setup, the minimal cooling speed to achieve glass formation is then found to be related with the crystallization relaxation time, energy barrier and with the thermal history. In particular, we obtain that the thermal history encodes small fluctuations around the equilibrium population which are exponentially amplified near the glass transition, which mathematically corresponds to the boundary layer of the master equation. The change in the glass transition temperature is also found as a function of the cooling rate. Finally, to verify our analytical results, a kinetic Monte Carlo simulation was implemented.

Keywords: Glass transition; Phase transitions; Non-equilibrium systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2016.01.064

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