Glass Formation in a Lattice Model for Living Polymers

Menon, Gautam I and Pandit, Rahul (1995) Glass Formation in a Lattice Model for Living Polymers. In: Physical Review Letters, 75 (25). pp. 4638-4641.

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Abstract

We study glass formation in a lattice model for living, semiflexible polymers. Our model exhibits logarithmically slow relaxation out of quenched, metastable configurations, a frustration-driven glass to crystal transition, and an exotic lamellar glass. We propose a Monte Carlo analog of scanning calorimetry and use it to study these glasses. We discuss the relevance of our work to experiments and to some theories of the glass transition in model systems.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Physical Review Letters
Publisher:	American Physical Society
Additional Information:	Copyright for this article belongs to American Physical Society (APS)
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	26 Jul 2004
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:14
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/1170

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