Geometrical Frustration and Static Correlations in a Simple Glass Former

2011/08/31 by Benoit Charbonneau, Patrick Charbonneau, Gilles Tarjus · 97 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · Psychology · #Condensed matter physics #Frustration #Geometrical frustration #Material Dynamics and Properties #Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics #Physics #Psychology #Relaxation (psychology) #Simple (philosophy) #Social psychology #Statistical physics #Theoretical and Computational Physics #Theoretical physics #cond-mat.dis-nn

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.108.035701

published in Physical Review Letters 108(3), 035701 (American Physical Society) · 4 pages, 3 figures

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Abstract

We study the geometrical frustration scenario of glass formation for simple hard-sphere models. We find that the dual picture in terms of defects brings little insight and no theoretical simplification for the understanding of the slowing down of relaxation, because of the strong frustration characterizing these systems. The possibility of a growing static length is furthermore found to be physically irrelevant in the regime that is accessible to computer simulations.

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