Domain-Wall Scaling Study of the Structural Glass Transition

Ghosh, Siddhartha Shankar and Dasgupta, Chandan (1996) Domain-Wall Scaling Study of the Structural Glass Transition. In: Physical Review Letters, 77 (7). pp. 1310-1313.

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Abstract

The possibility of the occurrence of a finite-temperature thermodynamic glass transition in a twocomponent Lennard-Jones system is investigated using a numerical domain-wall scaling approach. Our study is based on the assumption that some degrees of freedom of the system get frozen below a certain temperature and act as a source of quenched disorder for the remaining active degrees of freedom. Our results rule out the possibility of the occurrence of a finite-temperature phase transition and suggest a zero-temperature transition with correlation length exponent v \approx 1.5. [S0031-9007(96)00859-9]

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Physical Review Letters
Publisher:	American Physical Society
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to American Physical Society.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	25 Aug 2008
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:34
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/9641

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