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Glass-Forming Liquids and Polymers: With a Little Help from Computational Statistical Physics

Published

Author(s)

S C. Glotzer, Y Gebremichael, N Lacevic, T B. Schroder, Francis W. Starr

Abstract

We describe the application of statistical mechanical framework, originally developed to describe critical phenonema, to the problem of dynamic criticality associated with the glass transition of various materials.
Citation
Computer Physics Communications
Volume
146

Keywords

correlation length, dynamic heterogeneity, glass transition

Citation

Glotzer, S. , Gebremichael, Y. , Lacevic, N. , Schroder, T. and Starr, F. (2002), Glass-Forming Liquids and Polymers: With a Little Help from Computational Statistical Physics, Computer Physics Communications, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=850081 (Accessed April 24, 2024)
Created January 1, 2002, Updated February 17, 2017