Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2008-04-23
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
11 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.78.011505
We conduct a numerical study of the dynamical behavior of a system of three-dimensional crosses, particles that consist of three mutually perpendicular line segments rigidly joined at their midpoints. In an earlier study [W. van Ketel et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 135703 (2005)] we showed that this model has the structural properties of an ideal gas, yet the dynamical properties of a strong glass former. In the present paper we report an extensive study of the dynamical heterogeneities that appear in this system in the regime where glassy behavior sets in. On the one hand, we find that the propensity of a particle to diffuse is determined by the structure of its local environment. The local density around mobile particles is significantly less than the average density, but there is little clustering of mobile particles, and the clusters observed tend to be small. On the other hand, dynamical susceptibility results indicate that a large dynamical length scale develops even at moderate densities. This suggests that propensity and other mobility measures are an incomplete measure of dynamical length scales in this system.
Charbonneau Patrick
Das Chinmay
Frenkel Daan
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