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Fragile to strong crossover in a model glass-former

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Abstract

Glass-forming liquids are broadly classified fragile and strong glass-forming liquids, which show non-Arrhenius and Arrhenius temperature dependence of dynamics, respectively, as the glass transition temperature is approached. In liquids like water or silica, a fragile to strong crossover is observed at lower temperatures. Though, most metallic glass-formers show fragile behaviour for a wide range of temperatures, it has recently been found that even metallic glass-forming liquids show a fragile to strong crossover in dynamics when really low temperatures are accessed.  In our work, we have computationally studied the Kob-Andersen model for a wide range of temperatures and have accessed really low temperatures below the mode coupling temperature(TMCT). We find signatures of a possible fragile to strong dynamical crossover below TMCT consistent with the previous findings in different metallic glass formers. We investigate aspects of dynamical heterogeneity and thermodynamics accompanying this crossover.

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Presenters

  • Pallabi Das

    JNCASR

Authors

  • Srikanth Sastry

    Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Sci

  • Pallabi Das

    JNCASR