Fluctuations in liquids and glasses

Alexander Z. Patashinski; Mark A. Ratner

doi:10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01067-1

Fluctuations in liquids and glasses

Alexander Z. Patashinski, Mark A. Ratner

Northwestern University

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Abstract

In a coarsened description of glassformers, the fluctuating variable is the local order. The configuration space of a glassformer consists of many basins with basin boundaries determined by heights of the potential energy landscape. We suggest that structural changes in the system may be described in terms of local rearrangements as elementary inter-basin steps. A general theorem is found relating the fluctuations of the local structure to thermodynamic properties measured at different time scales.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	526-529
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Volume	314
Issue number	1-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01067-1
Publication status	Published - Dec 1 2002

Keywords

Fluctuations
Liquids
Structure
Thermodynamics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Statistics and Probability
Condensed Matter Physics

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