2009/10/31 by Tomoaki Nogawa, Nobuyasu Ito, Hiroshi Watanabe
Engineering · Materials Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Composite material #Condensed matter physics #Critical point (mathematics) #Crystal (programming language) #Dispersity #Geometry #Glass transition #Material Dynamics and Properties #Materials science #Mathematics #Melting point #Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics #Physics #Polymer #Polymer chemistry #Theoretical and Computational Physics #Thermodynamics #Transition point #cond-mat.dis-nn #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreve.82.021201
published as Phys. Rev. E 82, 021201 (2010) · 5 pages, 5 figures
openalex publication_date 2010/08/10 · arxiv created 2010/09/28 · arxiv updated 2010/09/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We study the interplay between the fluid-crystal transition and the glass transition of elastic sphere system with polydispersity using nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. It is found that the end point of the crystal-fluid transition line, which corresponds to the critical polydispersity above which the crystal state is unstable, is on the glass transition line. This means that crystal and fluid states at the melting point becomes less distinguishable as polydispersity increases and finally they become identical state, i.e., marginal glass state, at critical polydispersity.