Dynamical heterogeneity in a highly supercooled liquid: Consistent calculations of correlation length, intensity, and lifetime

Details Dynamical heterogeneity in a highly supercooled liquid: Consistent calculations of correlation length, intensity, and lifetime Dynamical heterogeneity in a highly supercooled liquid: Consistent calculations of correlation length, intensity, and lifetime

2010-09-09

arxiv.org/abs/1009.1733v3

Phys. Rev. E 84, 011506 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

12pages, 13figures, to appear in Physical Review E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.84.011506

We have investigated dynamical heterogeneity in a highly supercooled liquid using molecular-dynamics simulations in three dimensions. Dynamical heterogeneity can be characterized by three quantities: correlation length $\xi_4$, intensity $\chi_4$, and lifetime $\tau_{\text{hetero}}$. We evaluated all three quantities consistently from a single order parameter. In a previous study (H. Mizuno and R. Yamamoto, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 82}, 030501(R) (2010)), we examined the lifetime $\tau_{\text{hetero}}(t)$ in two time intervals $t=\tau_\alpha$ and $\tau_{\text{ngp}}$, where $\tau_\alpha$ is the $\alpha$-relaxation time and $\tau_{\text{ngp}}$ is the time at which the non-Gaussian parameter of the Van Hove self-correlation function is maximized. In the present study, in addition to the lifetime $\tau_{\text{hetero}}(t)$, we evaluated the correlation length $\xi_4(t)$ and the intensity $\chi_4(t)$ from the same order parameter used for the lifetime $\tau_{\text{hetero}}(t)$. We found that as the temperature decreases, the lifetime $\tau_{\text{hetero}}(t)$ grows dramatically, whereas the correlation length $\xi_4(t)$ and the intensity $\chi_4(t)$ increase slowly compared to $\tau_{\text{hetero}}(t)$ or plateaus. Furthermore, we investigated the lifetime $\tau_{\text{hetero}}(t)$ in more detail. We examined the time-interval dependence of the lifetime $\tau_{\text{hetero}}(t)$ and found that as the time interval $t$ increases, $\tau_{\text{hetero}}(t)$ monotonically becomes longer and plateaus at the relaxation time of the two-point density correlation function. At the large time intervals for which $\tau_{\text{hetero}}(t)$ plateaus, the heterogeneous dynamics migrate in space with a diffusion mechanism, such as the particle density.

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