Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2007-04-11
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
9 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.77.061505
We propose a model of a heterogeneous glass forming liquid and compute the low-temperature behavior of a tagged molecule moving within it. This model exhibits stretched-exponential decay of the wavenumber-dependent, self intermediate scattering function in the limit of long times. At temperatures close to the glass transition, where the heterogeneities are much larger in extent than the molecular spacing, the time dependence of the scattering function crosses over from stretched-exponential decay with an index $b=1/2$ at large wave numbers to normal, diffusive behavior with $b = 1$ at small wavenumbers. There is a clear separation between early-stage, cage-breaking $\beta$ relaxation and late-stage $\alpha$ relaxation. The spatial representation of the scattering function exhibits an anomalously broad exponential (non-Gaussian) tail for sufficiently large values of the molecular displacement at all finite times.
Langer James S.
Mukhopadhyay Subhadeep
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