The Kauzmann Transition to an Ideal Glass Phase

2022/09/22 by Chiara Cammarota, Cammarota, Chiara, Misaki Ozawa +3
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn) #FOS: Physical sciences #Material Dynamics and Properties #Theoretical and Computational Physics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2209.11049

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Abstract

The idea that a thermodynamic glass transition of some sort underlies the observed glass formation has been highly debated since Kauzmann first stressed the hypothetical entropy crisis that could take place if one were able to equilibrate supercooled liquids below the experimental glass transition temperature T_g. This a priori unreachable transition at some T_K

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