Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2004-09-17
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
10 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.1829251
There has been renewed interest in the frequency dependent specific heat of supercooled liquids in recent years with computer simulation studies exploring the whole frequency range of relaxation. The simulation studies can thus supplement the existing experimental results to provide an insight into the energy landscape dynamics. We here investigate a kinetic model of cooperative dynamics within the landscape paradigm for the dynamic heat capacity behavior. In this picture, the beta-process is modeled as a thermally activated event in a two-level system and the alpha-process is described as a beta-relaxation mediated cooperative transition in a double well. The model provides a description of the activated hopping in the energy landscape in close relation with the cooperative nature of the hopping event. For suitable choice of parameters, the model predicts a frequency dependent heat capacity that reflects the two-step relaxation behavior. Although experimentally obtained specific heat spectra of supercooled liquids till date could not capture the two-step relaxation behavior, this has been observed in a computer simulation study by Scheidler et. al. [Phys. Rev. B 63, 104204 (2001)]. The temperature dependence of the position of the low-frequency peak, due to the alpha-relaxation, shows a non-Arrhenius behavior as observed experimentally by Birge and Nagel [Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 2674 (1985)]. The shape of the alpha-peak is, however, found to be temperature independent, in agreement with the simulation result. The high-frequency peak appears with considerably larger amplitude than the alpha-peak. We attempt a plausible reason for this observation that is in contrast with the general feature revealed by the dielectric spectroscopy.
Bagchi Biman
Chakrabarti Dwaipayan
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