Relationships between the single particle barrier hopping theory and thermodynamic, disordered media, elastic, and jamming models of glassy systems

被引:42
作者
Schweizer, Kenneth S. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Illinois, Dept Mat Sci, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[2] Univ Illinois, Dept Chem, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
D O I
10.1063/1.2780863
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
学科分类号
070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The predictions of the ultralocal limit of the activated hopping theory of highly viscous simple fluids and colloidal suspensions [K. S. Schweizer and G. Yatsenko, J. Chem. Phys. 127, 164505 (2007), preceding paper] for the relaxation time and effective activation barrier are compared with those of diverse alternative theoretical approaches and computer simulation. A nonlinear connection between the barrier height and excess pressure as empirically suggested by simulations of polydisperse repulsive force fluids is identified. In the dense normal and weakly dynamical precursor regime, where entropic barriers of hard spheres are nonexistent or of order the thermal energy, agreement with an excess entropy ansatz is found. In the random close packing or jamming limit, the barrier hopping theory predicts an essential singularity stronger than the free volume model, which is in agreement with the simplest entropic droplet nucleation and replica field theoretic approaches. Upon further technical simplification of the theory, close connections with renormalization group and nonperturbative memory function based studies of activated transport of a Brownian particle in a disordered medium can been identified. Several analytic arguments suggest a qualitative consistency between the barrier hopping theory and solid-state elastic models based on the high frequency shear modulus and a molecular-sized apparent activation volume. Implications of the analysis for the often high degeneracy of conflicting explanations of glassy dynamics are discussed.
引用
收藏
页数:9
相关论文
共 84 条
[81]   Microscopic theory of heterogeneity and nonexponential relaxations in supercooled liquids [J].
Xia, XY ;
Wolynes, PG .
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2001, 86 (24) :5526-5529
[82]   Dynamics of highly supercooled liquids: Heterogeneity, rheology, and diffusion [J].
Yamamoto, R ;
Onuki, A .
PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 1998, 58 (03) :3515-3529
[83]   Ideal glass transitions, shear modulus, activated dynamics, and yielding in fluids of nonspherical objects [J].
Yatsenko, Galina ;
Schweizer, Kenneth S. .
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 2007, 126 (01)
[84]   Gaussian density fluctuations and mode coupling theory for supercooled liquids [J].
Zaccarelli, E ;
Foffi, G ;
Sciortino, F ;
Tartaglia, P ;
Dawson, KA .
EUROPHYSICS LETTERS, 2001, 55 (02) :157-163