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两步玻璃化转变的结构起源

Structural Origin of the Two-Step Glass Transition

Xinzhuo Liu, Huaguang Wang, Zexin Zhang, Xinsheng Sean Ling

摘要:

玻璃化转变是物理学中一个长期存在的问题。确定转型的结构根源可能会导致问题的最终解决方案。在这里,我们第一次发现这样的结构起源,提出了一种新的方法来分析玻璃中的结构动力学关系。一个有趣的两步玻璃化转变,旋转玻璃化转变之前的平移,实验确定在二维胶体棒系统。在过渡过程中,平行和垂直包装棒被发现形成局部的自由能极小值的配置空间,由激活势垒分开。当接近旋转玻璃化转变时,这种屏障显著增加;从而旋转运动被冻结,而平移运动保持扩散。我们认为,激活势垒的旋转是起源的两步玻璃化转变。这样的激活势垒之间定义明确的本地配置持有的关键,以了解两步玻璃化转变一般。

英文摘要:

The glass transition is a long-standing problem in physics. Identifying the structural origin of the transition may lead to the ultimate solution to the problem. Here, for the first time, we discover such a structural origin by proposing a novel method to analyze structure-dynamics relation in glasses. An interesting two-step glass transition, with rotational glass transition preceding translational one, is identified experimentally in 2D colloidal rod systems. During the transition, parallel and perpendicularly packed rods are found to form local free energy minima in configurational space, separated by an activation barrier. This barrier increases significantly when rotational glass transition is approached; thereby the rotational motion is frozen while the translational one remains diffusive. We argue that the activation barrier for rotation is the origin of the two-step glass transition. Such an activation barrier between well-defined local configurations holds the key to understand the two-step glass transition in general.

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