A General Structural Order Parameter for the Amorphous Solidification of a Supercooled Liquid
arXiv:2109.12461 · doi:10.1063/5.0094386
Abstract
The persistent problem posed by the glass transition is to develop a general atomic level description of a solidification process that is not associated with any change in the symmetry of the atomic structure. The answer proposed in this paper is t measure a configuration's capacity to restrain the motion of the constituent atoms. Here we show that the instantaneous normal modes can be used to define a measure of atomic restraint that accounts for the difference between fragile and strong liquids and the collective length scale of the supercooled liquid. These results represent a significant simplification of the description of amorphous solidification and provide a powerful systematic treatment of the influence of microscopic factors on the formation of the amorphous solid.
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