Excitations Are Localized and Relaxation Is Hierarchical in Glass-Forming Liquids
For several atomistic models of glass formers, at conditions below their glassy-dynamics–onset temperatures, T_{o}, we use importance sampling of trajectory space to study the structure, statistics, and dynamics of excitations responsible for structural relaxation. Excitations are detected in terms...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2011-11-01
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| Series: | Physical Review X |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.1.021013 |