Dynamic transition in an atomic glass former: A molecular-dynamics evidence

2011/05/31 by Estelle Pitard, E. Pitard, Vivien Lecomte +3 · 55 citations
Chemistry · Materials Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions #Dynamics (music) #Glass transition #Material Dynamics and Properties #Molecular dynamics #Phase (matter) #Phase transition #Space (punctuation) #Supercooling #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech #math-ph #math.MP #nlin.CD

paper · pdf · doi:10.1209/0295-5075/96/56002

published in Europhysics Letters (EPL) 96(5), 56002 (Institute of Physics) · v2: references added, more details provided

openalex publication_date 2011/11/15 · arxiv created 2011/11/28 · arxiv updated 2012/01/06 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We find that a Lennard-Jones mixture displays a dynamic phase transition between an active regime and an inactive one. By means of molecular dynamics simulations and of a finite-size study, we show that the spacetime dynamics in the supercooled regime coincides with a dynamic first-order transition point.

Citations

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• Chaotic Properties of Systems with Markov Dynamics
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