Identification of long-lived clusters and their link to slow dynamics in a model glass former

A Malins, J Eggers, CP Royall, SR Williams… - The Journal of chemical …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We study the relationship between local structural ordering and dynamical heterogeneities
in a model glass-forming liquid, the Wahnström mixture. A novel cluster-based approach is …

Structural and dynamical heterogeneity in a glass-forming liquid

GS Matharoo, MSG Razul, PH Poole - … E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter …, 2006 - APS
We use the “isoconfigurational ensemble”[Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 135701 (2004)] to analyze
both dynamical and structural properties in simulations of a glass-forming molecular liquid …

Correlation between structural relaxation and connectivity of icosahedral clusters in CuZr metallic glass-forming liquids

ZW Wu, MZ Li, WH Wang, KX Liu - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2013 - APS
The correlation between structural relaxation and the medium-range structures formed by
icosahedral cluster packing in CuZr supercooled metallic glass-forming liquids was studied …

Roles of icosahedral and crystal-like order in the hard spheres glass transition

M Leocmach, H Tanaka - Nature communications, 2012 - nature.com
A link between structural ordering and slow dynamics has recently attracted much attention
from the context of the origin of glassy slow dynamics. Candidates for such structural order …

Locally favoured structures and dynamic length scales in a simple glass-former

CP Royall, W Kob - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the static and dynamic properties of a weakly polydisperse hard sphere
system in the deeply supercooled state, ie at densities higher than that corresponding to the …

Lifetimes and lengthscales of structural motifs in a model glassformer

A Malins, J Eggers, H Tanaka, CP Royall - Faraday discussions, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
We use a newly-developed method to identify local structural motifs in a popular model
glassformer, the Kob–Andersen binary Lennard-Jones mixture. By measuring the lifetimes of …

The favored cluster structures of model glass formers

JPK Doye, DJ Wales, FHM Zetterling… - The Journal of chemical …, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
There is still much to learn about the nature of the glass transition, 1 and so it is an area of
intense current interest. One of the increasingly prominent avenues of research in this field is …

Stretched and compressed exponentials in the relaxation dynamics of a metallic glass-forming melt

ZW Wu, W Kob, WH Wang, L Xu - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
The dynamics of glass-forming systems shows a multitude of features that are absent in
normal liquids, such as non-exponential relaxation and a strong temperature-dependence of …

Tetrahedrality dictates dynamics in hard sphere mixtures

S Marín-Aguilar, HH Wensink, G Foffi, F Smallenburg - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
The link between local structure and dynamical slowdown in glassy fluids has been the
focus of intense debate for the better part of a century. Nonetheless, a simple method to …

Spatiotemporal Hierarchy of Relaxation Events, Dynamical Heterogeneities,<? format?> and Structural Reorganization in a Supercooled Liquid

R Candelier, A Widmer-Cooper, JK Kummerfeld… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
We identify the pattern of microscopic dynamical relaxation for a two-dimensional glass-
forming liquid. On short time scales, bursts of irreversible particle motion, called cage jumps …