Molecular mode-coupling theory for supercooled liquids: Application to water

Details Molecular mode-coupling theory for supercooled liquids: Application to water Molecular mode-coupling theory for supercooled liquids: Application to water

1999-05-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9905091v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

22 pages 4 figures Latex

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.60.5768

We present mode-coupling equations for the description of the slow dynamics observed in supercooled molecular liquids close to the glass transition. The mode-coupling theory (MCT) originally formulated to study the slow relaxation in simple atomic liquids, and then extended to the analysis of liquids composed by linear molecules, is here generalized to systems of arbitrarily shaped, rigid molecules. We compare the predictions of the theory for the $q$-vector dependence of the molecular nonergodicity parameters, calculated by solving numerically the molecular MCT equations in two different approximation schemes, with ``exact'' results calculated from a molecular dynamics simulation of supercooled water. The agreement between theory and simulation data supports the view that MCT succeeds in describing the dynamics of supercooled molecular liquids, even for network forming ones.

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