Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1999-06-22
Phys. Rev.E, 62, 5173 (2000)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
5 pages and 7 figures. Revised version as accepted for publication in PRE. Added discussion and figures to clarify the orienta
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.62.5173
For hard ellipsoids of revolution we calculate the phase diagram for the idealized glass transition. Our equations cover the glass physics in the full phase space, for all packing fractions and all aspect ratios X$_0$. With increasing aspect ratio we find the idealized glass transition to become primarily be driven by orientational degrees of freedom. For needle or plate like systems the transition is strongly influenced by a precursor of a nematic instability. We obtain three types of glass transition lines. The first one ($\phi_c^{(B)}$) corresponds to the conventional glass transition for spherical particles which is driven by the cage effect. At the second one ($\phi_c^{(B')}$) which occurs for rather non-spherical particles a glass phase is formed which consists of domains. Within each domain there is a nematic order where the center of mass motion is quasi--ergodic, whereas the inter--domain orientations build an orientational glass. The third glass transition line ($\phi_c^{(A)}$) occurs for nearly spherical ellipsoids where the orientational degrees of freedom with odd parity, e.g. 180$^o$ flips, freeze independently from the positions.
Latz Arnulf
Letz M.
Schilling Rene
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