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Relaxation mechanisms in supercooled liquids past the Mode--Coupling Crossover: Cooperatively Re--arranging Regions vs Excitations (2103.08060v1)

Published 14 Mar 2021 in cond-mat.soft and cond-mat.stat-mech

Abstract: Among the challenges in discriminating between theoretical approaches to the glass transition is obtaining suitable data. In particular, particle--resolved data in liquids supercooled past the mode--coupling crossover has until recently been hard to obtain. Here we combine nano-particle resolved experiments and GPU simulation data which addresses this and investigate the predictions of differing theoretical approaches. We find support for both dynamic facilitation and thermodynamic approaches. In particular, excitations, the elementary units of relaxation in dynamic facilitation theory follow the predicted scaling behaviour and the properties of cooperatively rearranging regions (CRRs) are consistent with RFOT theory. At weak supercooling there is limited correlation between particles identified in excitations and CRRs, but this increases very substantially at deep supercooling. We identify a timescale related to the CRRs which is coupled to the structural relaxation time and thus decoupled from the excitation timescale, which remains microscopic.

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