Why liquids are fragile

Details Why liquids are fragile Why liquids are fragile

2005-03-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0503489v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

15 pages 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.72.031503

The fragilities (Tg-normalized temperature dependence of alpha-relaxation times) of 33 glass-forming liquids and polymers are compared for isobaric, mP, and isochoric, mV, conditions. We find that the two quantities are linearly correlated, mP = (37 +/- 3) + (0.84 +/- 0.5)mV. This result has obvious important consequences, since the ratio mV/mP is a measure of the relative degree to which temperature and density control the dynamics, Moreover, we show that the fragility itself is a consequence of the relative interplay of temperature and density effects near Tg. Specifically, strong behavior reflects a substantial contribution from density (jammed dynamics), while the relaxation of fragile liquids is more thermally-activated. Drawing on a scaling law, a physical interpretation of this result in terms of the intermolecular potential is offered.

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