A new view of the Lindemann criterion

Abstract

The Lindemann criterion is reformulated in terms of the average shear modulus $G_c$ of the melting crystal, indicating a critical melting shear strain which is necessary to form the many different inherent states of the liquid. In glass formers with covalent bonds, one has to distinguish between soft and hard degrees of freedom to reach agreement. The temperature dependence of the picosecond mean square displacements of liquid and crystal shows that there are two separate contributions to the divergence of the viscosity with decreasing temperature: the anharmonic increase of the shear modulus and a diverging correlation length .

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