Percolation model for slow dynamics in glass-forming materials.
We identify a link between the glass transition and percolation of regions of mobility in configuration space. We find that many hallmarks of glassy dynamics, for example, stretched-exponential response functions and a diverging structural relaxation time, are consequences of the critical properties of mean-field percolation. Specific predictions of the percolation model include the range of possible stretching exponents 1/3< or =beta< or =1 and the functional dependence of the structural relaxation time tau_{alpha} and exponent beta on temperature, density, and wave number.
Lois
Gregg
G
Department of Physics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8284, USA.
Blawzdziewicz
Jerzy
J
O'Hern
Corey S
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