The following properties are in the present literature associated with the behavior of supercooled glass-forming liquids: faster than exponential growth of the relaxation time, dynamical heterogeneities, growing point-to-set correlation length, crossover from mean-field behavior to activated dynamics. In this paper we argue that these properties are also present in a much simpler situation, namely the melting of the bulk of an ordered phase beyond a first order phase transition point. This is a promising path toward a better theoretical, numerical and experimental understanding of the above phenomena and of the physics of supercooled liquids. We discuss in detail the analogies and the differences between the glass and the bulk melting transitions.
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21 January 2011
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January 21 2011
On melting dynamics and the glass transition. I. Glassy aspects of melting dynamics
Florent Krzakala;
Florent Krzakala
a)
1
CNRS and ESPCI ParisTech
, 10 rue Vauquelin, UMR 7083 Gulliver, Paris 75005, France
2
Theoretical Division and Center for Nonlinear Studies
, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico 87545, USA
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Lenka Zdeborová
Lenka Zdeborová
2
Theoretical Division and Center for Nonlinear Studies
, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico 87545, USA
3
Institute de Physique Théorique
, IPhT, CEA Saclay, and URA 2306, CNRS, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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a)
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Electronic mail: fk@espci.fr.
J. Chem. Phys. 134, 034512 (2011)
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Received:
June 23 2010
Accepted:
October 07 2010
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On melting dynamics and the glass transition. II. Glassy dynamics as a melting process
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Florent Krzakala, Lenka Zdeborová; On melting dynamics and the glass transition. I. Glassy aspects of melting dynamics. J. Chem. Phys. 21 January 2011; 134 (3): 034512. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3506841
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