Connection between Adam-Gibbs theory and spatially heterogeneous dynamics

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Giovambattista, Nicolas ^a   Buldyrev, Sergey V ^a   Starr, Francis W ^b   Stanley, H Eugene ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; HYDROGEN BONDS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; MOLTEN MATERIALS; POLYMERS; RANDOM PROCESSES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ADAM-GIBBS THEORY; DIFFUSIVITY; GAUSSIAN APPROXIMATION; LENNARD-JONES MIXTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; SPATIALLY HETEROGENEOUS DYNAMICS; SUPERCOOLED LIQUIDS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TIME DEPENDENCE;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0037471075     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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