Finite-temperature critical point of a glass transition

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 29, 2010, Pages 12793-12798

  Elmatad, Yael S ^a   Jack, Robert L ^b   Chandler, David ^a   Garrahan, Juan P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical behavior; Supercooled liquids

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 77955644601     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1006306107     Document Type: Article

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