Evidence of growing spatial correlations at the glass transition from nonlinear response experiments

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  Crauste Thibierge, C ^a   Brun, C ^a   Ladieu, F ^a   L'Hote D ^a   Biroli, G ^b   Bouchaud, J P ^c  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c Science and Finance   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE TG; GLASSY DYNAMICS; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NONLINEAR DIELECTRIC RESPONSE; POWER LAW; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SUPERCOOLED LIQUIDS;

DIELECTRIC LIQUIDS; GLASS; GLYCEROL; SPIN DYNAMICS; SPIN GLASS; SUPERCOOLING;

GLASS TRANSITION;

EID: 77951280740     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.165703     Document Type: Article

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