Molecular Dynamics Study of Long-Lived Structures in a Fragile Glass Forming Liquid

Abstract

We present molecular dynamics results for a two component, two-dimensional Lennard-Jones supercooled liquid near the glass transition. We find that the supercooled liquid is spatially heterogeneous and that there are long-lived clusters whose size distribution satisfies a scaling relation up to a cutoff. The similarity of several properties of the supercooled liquid to those of a mean-field glass-forming fluid near the spinodal suggests that the glass transition in the supercooled liquid is associated with an underlying thermodynamic instability.

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• Dynamical heterogeneities in a supercooled Lennard-Jones liquid

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