Critical behavior of the specific heat in glass formers
We show numeric evidence that, at low enough temperatures, the potential energy density of a glass-forming liquid fluctuates over length scales much larger than the interaction range. We focus on the behavior of translationally invariant quantities. The growing correlation length is unveiled by stud...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2006 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/51923 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51923 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | 53 51-73 Supercooled liquids Transition Model Dependence Energy Length. Física (Física) Física-Modelos matemáticos 22 Física |
| Resumo: | We show numeric evidence that, at low enough temperatures, the potential energy density of a glass-forming liquid fluctuates over length scales much larger than the interaction range. We focus on the behavior of translationally invariant quantities. The growing correlation length is unveiled by studying the finite-size effects. In the thermodynamic limit, the specific heat and the relaxation time diverge as a power law. Both features point towards the existence of a critical point in the metastable supercooled liquid phase. |
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