Simple Model of glass-formation Simple Model of glass-formation Itamar Procaccia Institute of Theoretical Physics Chinese University of Hong Kong Weizmann Institute: Einat Aharonov, Eran Bouchbinder, Valery Ilyin, Edan Lerner, Ting-Shek Lo, Natalya Makedonska, Ido Regev and Nurith Schupper . Emory University: George Hentschel CUHK September 2008
Simple Model of glass-formation. Itamar Procaccia Institute of Theoretical Physics Chinese University of Hong Kong. Weizmann Institute : Einat Aharonov, Eran Bouchbinder, Valery Ilyin, Edan Lerner, Ting-Shek Lo, Natalya Makedonska, Ido Regev and Nurith Schupper. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Simple Model of glass-formationSimple Model of glass-formation
Itamar Procaccia
Institute of Theoretical PhysicsChinese University of Hong Kong
Weizmann Institute: Einat Aharonov, Eran Bouchbinder, Valery Ilyin, Edan Lerner, Ting-Shek Lo, Natalya Makedonska, Ido Regev and Nurith Schupper .
Emory University: George Hentschel
CUHK September 2008
Glass phenomenology
The three accepted ‘facts’: jamming, Vogel-Fulcher, Kauzmann
A very popular model: a 50-50 binary mixture of particles interacting via soft repulsion potential
With ratio of `diameters’ 1.4
Simulations: both Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics with 4096 particles enclosed in an area L x L with periodic boundary conditions. We ran
simulations at a chosen temperature, fixed volume and fixed N. The units of mass, length, time and temperature are
Previous work (lots): Deng, Argon and Yip, P. Harrowell et al, etc: for T>0.5 the system is a “fluid”; for T smaller - dynamical
relaxation slows down considerably.
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The conclusion was that “defects” do not show any ‘singular’ behaviour , so they were discarded as a diagnostic tool .
The liquid like defects disappear at the glass transition!
For temperature > 0.8
For 0.3 < T < 0.8
Associated with the disappearance of liquid like defects there is an increase of typical scale
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Rigorous Results(J.P. Eckmann and I.P., PRE, 78, 011503 (2008))
The system is ergodic at all temperatures
Consequences: there is no Vogel-Fulcher temperature!
There is no Kauzman tempearture!
There is no jamming!
(the three no’s of Khartoum)
Statistical Mechanics
We define the energy of a cell of type i
Similarly we can measure the areas of cells of type i
Denote the number of boxes available for largest cells
Then the number of boxes available for the second largest cells is
The number of possible configurations W is then
Denote
A low temperature phase
Note that here the hexagons have disappeared entirely!
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First result :
Specific heat anomalies
The anomalies are due to micro-melting (micro-freezing of crystalline clusters)
We have an equation of state !!!
SummarySummaryThe ‘glass transition’ is not an abrupt transition, rather a very smeared out
phenomenon in which relaxation times increase at the T decreases .
There is no singularity on the way, no jamming, no Vogel-Fulcher, no Kauzman
We showed how to relate the statistical mechanics and structural information in a quantitative way to the slowing down and to the relaxation functions.
We could also explain in some detail the anomalies of the specific heat
Remaining task: How to use the increased understanding to write a proper theory of the mechanical properties of amorphous solid materials. (work in progress).
Since nothing gets singular, statistical mechanics is useful