Logarithmic Relaxation in a Kinetically Constrained Model

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2006-04-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0604168v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Major changes. To be published in Journal of Chemical Physics

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2212422

We present Monte Carlo simulations in a modification of the north-or-east-or-front model recently investigated by Berthier and Garrahan [J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 3578 (2005)]. In this coarse-grained model for relaxation in supercooled liquids, the liquid structure is substituted by a three-dimensional array of cells. A spin variable is assigned to each cell, with values 0 or 1 denoting respectively unexcited and excited local states in a mobility field. Change in local mobility (spin flip) for a given cell is permitted according to kinetic constraints determined by the mobilities of neighboring cells. In this work we keep the same kinetic constraints of the original model, but we introduce two types of cells (denoted as "fast'' and "slow'') with very different rates for spin flip. As a consequence, fast and slow cells exhibit very different relaxation times for spin correlators. While slow cells exhibit standard relaxation, fast cells display anomalous relaxation, characterized by a concave-to-convex crossover in spin correlators by changing temperature or composition. At intermediate state points logarithmic relaxation is observed over three time decades. These results display striking analogies with dynamic correlators reported in recent simulations on a bead-spring model for polymer blends.

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