Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, 51170 Köln, Germany.
Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Apr 9;104(14):145701. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.145701. Epub 2010 Apr 5.
Building on mode-coupling-theory calculations, we report a novel scenario for multiple glass transitions in a purely repulsive spherical potential: the square shoulder. The liquid-glass transition lines exhibit both melting by cooling and melting by compression as well as associated diffusion anomalies, similar to the ones observed in water. Differently from all previously investigated models, we find for small shoulder widths a glass-glass line that is disconnected from the liquid phase. Upon increasing the shoulder width such a glass-glass line merges with the liquid-glass transition lines, featuring two distinct end point singularities that give rise to logarithmic decays in the dynamics. We analytically explain these findings by considering the interplay of different repulsive length scales.
基于模式耦合理论的计算,我们提出了一个在纯排斥球形势中出现多个玻璃化转变的新情景:方肩。液体-玻璃转变线表现出冷却时的熔化和压缩时的熔化以及相关的扩散异常,类似于在水中观察到的情况。与所有之前研究的模型不同,我们发现对于较小的肩宽,玻璃-玻璃线与液相分离。随着肩宽的增加,这种玻璃-玻璃线与液体-玻璃转变线合并,具有两个不同的端点奇异点,导致动力学中的对数衰减。通过考虑不同排斥长度尺度的相互作用,我们对此进行了分析解释。