Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2001-09-17
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
6 figures, 12 pages
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0022-3093(02)01456-4
To investigate the influence of orientational degrees of freedom onto the dynamics of molecular systems in its supercooled and glassy regime we have solved numerically the mode-coupling equations for hard ellipsoids of revolution. For a wide range of volume fractions $\phi$ and aspect ratios $x_{0}$ we find an orientational peak in the center of mass spectra $\chi_{000}^{''}(q,\omega)$ and $\phi_{000}^{''} (q,\omega)$ about one decade below a high frequency peak. This orientational peak is the counterpart of a peak appearing in the quadrupolar spectra $\chi_{22m}^{''}(q,\omega)$ and $\phi_{22m}^{''}(q,\omega)$. The latter peak is almost insensitive on $\phi$ for $x_{0}$ close to one, i.e. for weak steric hindrance, and broadens strongly with increasing $x_{0}$. Deep in the glass we find an additional peak between the orientational and the high frequency peak. We have evidence that this intermediate peak is the result of a coupling between modes with $l=0$ and $l=2$, due to the nondiagonality of the static correlators.
Latz Arnulf
Letz M.
Schilling Rene
Theenhaus Th.
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