Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2011-10-20
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
revised version
Scientific paper
Dynamic facilitation theory assumes short-ranged dynamic constraints to be the essential feature of supercooled liquids and draws much of its conclusions from the study of kinetically constrained models. While deceptively simple, these models predict the existence of trajectories that maintain a high overlap with their initial state over many structural relaxation times. We use molecular dynamics simulations combined with importance sampling in trajectory space to test this prediction through counting long-lived particle displacements. For observation times longer than the structural relaxation time exponential tails emerge in the probability distribution of this number. Reweighting trajectories towards low mobility corresponds to a phase transition into an inactive phase. While dynamics in these two phases is drastically different structural measures show only slight differences. We discuss the choice of dynamic order parameter and give a possible explanation for the microscopic origin of the effective dynamic constraints.
Chandler David
Speck Thomas
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