2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (11) ◽  
pp. 2290-2295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu. D. Zavorotnev ◽  
A. Yu. Zakharov ◽  
L. S. Metlov

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuele Boattini ◽  
Susana Marín-Aguilar ◽  
Saheli Mitra ◽  
Giuseppe Foffi ◽  
Frank Smallenburg ◽  
...  

Abstract Few questions in condensed matter science have proven as difficult to unravel as the interplay between structure and dynamics in supercooled liquids. To explore this link, much research has been devoted to pinpointing local structures and order parameters that correlate strongly with dynamics. Here we use an unsupervised machine learning algorithm to identify structural heterogeneities in three archetypical glass formers—without using any dynamical information. In each system, the unsupervised machine learning approach autonomously designs a purely structural order parameter within a single snapshot. Comparing the structural order parameter with the dynamics, we find strong correlations with the dynamical heterogeneities. Moreover, the structural characteristics linked to slow particles disappear further away from the glass transition. Our results demonstrate the power of machine learning techniques to detect structural patterns even in disordered systems, and provide a new way forward for unraveling the structural origins of the slow dynamics of glassy materials.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Tong ◽  
Hajime Tanaka

AbstractGlass transition is characterised by drastic dynamical slowing down upon cooling, accompanied by growing spatial heterogeneity. Its rationalisation by subtle changes in the liquid structure has been long debated but remains elusive, due to intrinsic difficulty in detecting the underlying complex structural ordering. Here we report that structural order parameter characterising local packing capability can well describe the glassy dynamics not only macroscopically but also microscopically, no matter whether it is driven by temperature or density. A Vogel-Fulcher-Tammann (VFT)-like relation is universally identified between the structural relaxation time and the order parameter for supercooled liquids with isotropic interactions. More importantly, we find such an intriguing VFT-like relation to be statistically valid even at a particle level, between spatially coarse-grained structural order and microscopic particle-level dynamics. Such a unified description of glassy dynamics based solely on structural order is expected to contribute to the ultimate understanding of the long-standing glass-transition problem.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1658 ◽  
pp. 012080
Author(s):  
Yu D Zavorotnev ◽  
L S Metlov ◽  
A M Glezer ◽  
A Yu Zakharov ◽  
E Yu Tomashevskaya

1982 ◽  
Vol 217 (1) ◽  
pp. 351-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie L. Vorbeck ◽  
Arlene P. Martin ◽  
James W. Long ◽  
Jennie M. Smith ◽  
Richard R. Orr

1996 ◽  
Vol 69 (25) ◽  
pp. 3917-3919 ◽  
Author(s):  
Q. Zhu ◽  
L. Li ◽  
M. S. Masteller ◽  
G. J. Del Corso

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