Time scale for the onset of Fickian diffusion in supercooled liquids

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Szamel, Grzegorz ^a   Flenner, Elijah ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SUPERCOOLING;

FICKIAN DIFFUSION SETS; MEAN-SQUARED DISPLACEMENT; RELAXATION TIME;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 32944458042     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.011504     Document Type: Article

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