title: Communication: Identical temperature dependence of the time scales of several linear-response functions of two glass-forming liquids.
abstract: The frequency-dependent dielectric constant, shear and adiabatic bulk moduli, longitudinal thermal expansion coefficient, and longitudinal specific heat have been measured for two van der Waals glass-forming liquids, tetramethyl-tetraphenyl-trisiloxane (DC704) and 5-polyphenyl-4-ether. Within the experimental uncertainties the loss-peak frequencies of the measured response functions have identical temperature dependence over a range of temperatures, for which the Maxwell relaxation time varies more than nine orders of magnitude. The time scales are ordered from fastest to slowest as follows: Shear modulus, adiabatic bulk modulus, dielectric constant, longitudinal thermal expansion coefficient, and longitudinal specific heat. The ordering is discussed in light of the recent conjecture that van der Waals liquids are strongly correlating, i.e., approximate single-parameter liquids.
authors.affiliation: DNRF centre Glass and Time, IMFUFA, Department of Sciences, Roskilde University, P.O. Box 260, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark. boj@ruc.dk
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jakobsen
authors.forename: Tina
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hecksher
authors.forename: Tage
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Christensen
authors.forename: Niels Boye
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Olsen
authors.forename: Jeppe C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Dyre
authors.forename: Kristine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Niss