Heterogeneous Diffusion in Highly Supercooled Liquids

Details Heterogeneous Diffusion in Highly Supercooled Liquids Heterogeneous Diffusion in Highly Supercooled Liquids

1998-07-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9807180v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.4915

The diffusivity of tagged particles is demonstrated to be very heterogeneous on time scales comparable to or shorter than the $\alpha$ relaxation time $\tau_{\alpha}$ ($\cong$ the stress relaxation time) in a highly supercooled liquid via 3D molecular dynamics simulation. The particle motions in the relatively active regions dominantly contribute to the mean square displacement, giving rise to a diffusion constant systematically larger than the Einstein-Stokes value. The van Hove self-correlation function $G_s(r,t)$ is shown to have a long distance tail which can be scaled in terms of $r/t^{1/2}$ for $t \ls 3\tau_{\alpha}$. Its presence indicates heterogeneous diffusion in the active regions. However, the diffusion process eventually becomes homogeneous on time scales longer than the life time of the heterogeneity structure ($\sim 3 \tau_{\alpha}$).

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