Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2001-09-04
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 195701 (2002)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
To be published in PRL
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.195701
We report a molecular dynamics simulation of a supercooled simple monatomic glass-forming liquid. It is found that the onset of the supercooled regime results in formation of distinct domains of slow diffusion which are confined to the long-lived icosahedrally structured clusters associated with deeper minima in the energy landscape. As these domains, possessing a low-dimensional geometry, grow with cooling and percolate below $T_c$, the critical temperature of the mode coupling theory, a sharp slowing down of the structural relaxation relative to diffusion is observed. It is concluded that this latter anomaly cannot be accounted for by the spatial variation in atomic mobility; instead, we explain it as a direct result of the configuration-space constraints imposed by the transient structural correlations. We also conjecture that the observed tendency for low-dimensional clustering may be regarded as a possible mechanism of fragility.
Dzugutov Mikhail
Simdyankin Sergei I.
Zetterling Fredrik H. M.
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