A universal origin for secondary relaxations in supercooled liquids and structural glasses

Nature Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 62-68

  Stevenson, Jacob D ^a   Wolynes, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; CRYOGENIC LIQUIDS; FREE ENERGY; GLASS; GLASS FORMING MACHINES; SOLVENTS;

ACTIVATION BARRIERS; COLLISIONAL DYNAMICS; DYNAMICAL CROSSOVER; GLASS-FORMING LIQUID; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; RANDOM FIRST ORDER TRANSITION THEORIES; SECONDARY RELAXATIONS; STRUCTURAL RECONFIGURATIONS;

SUPERCOOLING;

EID: 73549117444     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1432     Document Type: Article

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