Structural relaxation in a supercooled molecular liquid

Abstract

We perform molecular-dynamics simulations of a molecular system in supercooled states for different values of inertia parameters to provide evidence that the long-time dynamics depends only on the equilibrium structure. This observation is consistent with the prediction of the mode-coupling theory for the glass transition and with the hypothesis that the potential energy-landscape controls the slow dynamics. We also find that dynamical properties at intermediate wavenumber depend on the spatial correlation of the molecule's geometrical center.

7 pages, 4 figures, Europhys. Lett. in press