Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1998-10-02
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
26 pages, 2 tables, 19 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/0953-8984/11/10/005
We present results from Molecular Dynamics simulations of the thermal glass transition in a dense polymer melt. In previous work we compared the simulation data with the idealized version of mode coupling theory (MCT) and found that the theory provides a good description of the dynamics above the critical temperature. In order to investigate the influence of different thermodynamic paths on the structural relaxation (alpha-process), we performed simulations for three different pressures and are thus able to give a sketch of the critical line of MCT in the pressure-temperature-plane [(p,T)-plane], where, according to the idealised version of MCT, an ergodic-nonergodic transition should occur. Furthermore, by cooling our system along two different paths (an isobar and an isochor), with the same impact point on the critical line, we demonstrate that neither the critical temperature nor the exponent gamma depend on the chosen path.
Baschnagel J"org
Bennemann Christoph
Binder Kurt
Paul Wolfgang
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