Generic features of the primary relaxation in glass-forming materials (Review Article)

We discuss structural relaxation in molecular and polymeric supercooled liquids, metallic alloys and orientational glass crystals. The study stresses especially the relationships between observables raised from underlying constraints imposed on degrees of freedom of vitrification systems. A self-con...

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Published in:Физика низких температур
Date:2017
Main Author: Kokshenev, V.B.
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Language:English
Published: Фізико-технічний інститут низьких температур ім. Б.І. Вєркіна НАН України 2017
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Generic features of the primary relaxation in glass-forming materials (Review Article) / V.B. Kokshenev // Физика низких температур. — 2017. — Т. 43, № 8. — С. 1174-1188. — Бібліогр.: 90 назв. — англ.
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https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/175123
We discuss structural relaxation in molecular and polymeric supercooled liquids, metallic alloys and orientational glass crystals. The study stresses especially the relationships between observables raised from underlying constraints imposed on degrees of freedom of vitrification systems. A self-consistent parametrization of the α-timescale on macroscopic level results in the material-and-model independent universal equation, relating three fundamental temperatures, characteristic of the primary relaxation, that is numerically proven in all studied glass formers. During the primary relaxation, the corresponding small and large mesoscopic clusters modify their size and structure in a self-similar way, regardless of underlying microscopic realizations. We show that cluster-shape similarity, instead of cluster-size fictive divergence, gives rise to universal features observed in primary relaxation. In all glass formers with structural disorder, including orientational-glass materials (with the exception of plastic crystals), structural relaxation is shown to be driven by local random fields. Within the dynamic stochastic approach, the universal subdiffusive dynamics corresponds to random walks on small and large fractals.
The author is grateful to Austen Angell, Alexander S. Bakai, Ralph Chamberlin, Ralph Colby, Josef Klafter, Takashi Odagaki, and Michael Shlesinger for their interest to the present research and for helpful critical comments.
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Фізико-технічний інститут низьких температур ім. Б.І. Вєркіна НАН України
Физика низких температур
Low dimensionality and inhomogeneity effects in quantum matter
Generic features of the primary relaxation in glass-forming materials (Review Article)
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Kokshenev, V.B.
Low dimensionality and inhomogeneity effects in quantum matter
title_short Generic features of the primary relaxation in glass-forming materials (Review Article)
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description We discuss structural relaxation in molecular and polymeric supercooled liquids, metallic alloys and orientational glass crystals. The study stresses especially the relationships between observables raised from underlying constraints imposed on degrees of freedom of vitrification systems. A self-consistent parametrization of the α-timescale on macroscopic level results in the material-and-model independent universal equation, relating three fundamental temperatures, characteristic of the primary relaxation, that is numerically proven in all studied glass formers. During the primary relaxation, the corresponding small and large mesoscopic clusters modify their size and structure in a self-similar way, regardless of underlying microscopic realizations. We show that cluster-shape similarity, instead of cluster-size fictive divergence, gives rise to universal features observed in primary relaxation. In all glass formers with structural disorder, including orientational-glass materials (with the exception of plastic crystals), structural relaxation is shown to be driven by local random fields. Within the dynamic stochastic approach, the universal subdiffusive dynamics corresponds to random walks on small and large fractals.
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