Free energy landscape and cooperatively rearranging region in a hard sphere glass.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
; 76(2 Pt 1): 021506, 2007 Aug.
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Exploiting the density functional theory, we calculate the free energy landscape (FEL) of the hard sphere glass in three dimensions. From the FEL, we estimate the number of the particles in the cooperatively rearranging region (CRR). We find that the density dependence of the number of the particles in the CRR is expressed as a power law function of the density. Analyzing the relaxation process in the CRR, we also find that the string motion is the elementary process for the structural relaxation, which leads to the natural definition of the simultaneously rearranging region as the particles displaced in the string motion.
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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
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Estados Unidos