Garrahan Juan P, Stannard Andrew, Blunt Matthew O, Beton Peter H
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Sep 8;106(36):15209-13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0902443106. Epub 2009 Aug 31.
We have recently shown that p-terphenyl-3,5,3',5'-tetracarboxylic acid adsorbed on graphite self-assembles into a two-dimensional rhombus random tiling. This tiling is close to ideal, displaying long-range correlations punctuated by sparse localized tiling defects. In this article we explore the analogy between dynamic arrest in this type of random tilings and that of structural glasses. We show that the structural relaxation of these systems is via the propagation-reaction of tiling defects, giving rise to dynamic heterogeneity. We study the scaling properties of the dynamics and discuss connections with kinetically constrained models of glasses.
我们最近发现,吸附在石墨上的对三联苯-3,5,3',5'-四羧酸自组装成二维菱形随机平铺结构。这种平铺结构接近理想状态,呈现出由稀疏局部平铺缺陷打断的长程相关性。在本文中,我们探讨了这种随机平铺结构中的动力学阻滞与结构玻璃中的动力学阻滞之间的相似性。我们表明,这些系统的结构弛豫是通过平铺缺陷的传播-反应实现的,从而产生动力学不均匀性。我们研究了动力学的标度性质,并讨论了与玻璃的动力学受限模型的联系。