title: Characterizing order in amorphous systems.
abstract: We measure and compare three correlation lengths proposed to describe the extent of structural order in amorphous systems. In particular, the recently proposed "patch correlation length" is measured as a function of temperature and fragility and shown to be comparable with other measures. In addition, we demonstrate that the patch method also allows us to characterize the symmetries of the local order without any a priori knowledge of it.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel. francois.sausset@lptms.u-psud.fr
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sausset
authors.forename: Dov
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Levine