Is there a reentrant glass in binary mixtures?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 22, 2004, Pages

  Zaccarelli, E ^a,b   Lowen H ^b   Wessels, P P F ^b   Sciortino, F ^a   Tartaglia, P ^a   Likos, C N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BINARY MIXTURES; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLASS TRANSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; POLYMERS; VITRIFICATION;

COULOMB INTERACTIONS; GLASS FORMING; GLASSIFICATION; MODE-COUPLING THEORY (MCT);

GLASS;

EID: 3042716468     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.225703     Document Type: Article

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