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Dynamics of Glass Forming Liquids with Randomly Pinned Particles

Chakrabarty, Saurish and Karmakar, Smarajit and Dasgupta, Chandan (2015) Dynamics of Glass Forming Liquids with Randomly Pinned Particles. In: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 5 .

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Abstract

It is frequently assumed that in the limit of vanishing cooling rate, the glass transition phenomenon becomes a thermodynamic transition at a temperature T-K. However, with any finite cooling rate, the system falls out of equilibrium at temperatures near T-g(> T-K), implying that the very existence of the putative thermodynamic phase transition at T-K can be questioned. Recent studies of systems with randomly pinned particles have hinted that the thermodynamic glass transition may be observed for liquids with randomly pinned particles. This expectation is based on the results of approximate calculations that suggest that the thermodynamic glass transition temperature increases with increasing concentration of pinned particles and it may be possible to equilibrate the system at temperatures near the increased transition temperature. We test the validity of this prediction through extensive molecular dynamics simulations of two model glass-forming liquids in the presence of random pinning. We find that extrapolated thermodynamic transition temperature T-K does not show any sign of increasing with increasing pinning concentration. The main effect of pinning is found to be a rapid decrease in the kinetic fragility of the system with increasing pin concentration. Implications of these observations for current theories of the glass transition are discussed.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Publisher: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
Additional Information: Copy right for this article belongs to the NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, MACMILLAN BUILDING, 4 CRINAN ST, LONDON N1 9XW, ENGLAND
Department/Centre: Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited: 19 Aug 2015 05:44
Last Modified: 19 Aug 2015 05:44
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/52142

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