Direct experimental evidence of a growing length scale accompanying the glass transition

Details Direct experimental evidence of a growing length scale accompanying the glass transition Direct experimental evidence of a growing length scale accompanying the glass transition

2005-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0512379v1

Science 310, 1797 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

5 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1126/science.1120714

Understanding glass formation is a challenge because the existence of a true glass state, distinct from liquid and solid, remains elusive: Glasses are liquids that have become too viscous to flow. An old idea, as yet unproven experimentally, is that the dynamics becomes sluggish as the glass transition approaches because increasingly larger regions of the material have to move simultaneously to allow flow. We introduce new multipoint dynamical susceptibilities to estimate quantitatively the size of these regions and provide direct experimental evidence that the glass formation of molecular liquids and colloidal suspensions is accompanied by growing dynamic correlation length scales.

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