Dimensional study of the caging order parameter at the glass transition.

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2012-08-28

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The glass problem is notoriously hard and controversial. Even at the mean-field level, little is agreed upon regarding why a fluid becomes sluggish while exhibiting but unremarkable structural changes. It is clear, however, that the process involves self-caging, which provides an order parameter for the transition. It is also broadly assumed that this cage should have a gaussian shape in the mean-field limit. Here we show that this ansatz does not hold. By performing simulations as a function of spatial dimension d, we find the cage to keep a nontrivial form. Quantitative mean-field descriptions of the glass transition, such as mode-coupling theory, density functional theory, and replica theory, all miss this crucial element. Although the mean-field random first-order transition scenario of the glass transition is qualitatively supported here and non-mean-field corrections are found to remain small on decreasing d, reconsideration of its implementation is needed for it to result in a coherent description of experimental observations.

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Cold Temperature, Glass, Hydrodynamics, Models, Chemical, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Normal Distribution, Phase Transition

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10.1073/pnas.1211825109

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Charbonneau, Patrick, Atsushi Ikeda, Giorgio Parisi and Francesco Zamponi (2012). Dimensional study of the caging order parameter at the glass transition. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 109(35). pp. 13939–13943. 10.1073/pnas.1211825109 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/12602.

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