IS THERE A GROWING CORRELATION LENGTH NEAR THE GLASS-TRANSITION

被引:162
作者
DASGUPTA, C
INDRANI, AV
RAMASWAMY, S
PHANI, MK
机构
[1] AERONAUT DEV ESTAB,BANGALORE 560093,INDIA
[2] UNIV MINNESOTA,SCH PHYS & ASTRON,MINNEAPOLIS,MN 55455
[3] INDIAN INST SCI,CTR THEORET STUDIES,BANGALORE 560012,KARNATAKA,INDIA
来源
EUROPHYSICS LETTERS | 1991年 / 15卷 / 03期
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10.1209/0295-5075/15/3/013
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We present the results of a molecular-dynamics study on a Lennard-Jones mixture. Measurements of density and bond-angle correlation functions show that the answer to the question posed in the title is NO. We also show that icosahedral order plays no special role in the glass transition, but that a normalized measure of the persistence of orientational correlations in the glass shows a systematic dependence on the spherical harmonic index l.
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页码:307 / 312
页数:6
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