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Probing large viscosities in glass-formers with nonequilibrium simulations.


ABSTRACT: For decades, scientists have debated whether supercooled liquids stop flowing below a glass transition temperature [Formula: see text] or whether motion continues to slow gradually down to zero temperature. Answering this question is challenging because human time scales set a limit on the largest measurable viscosity, and available data are equally well fit to models with opposite conclusions. Here, we use short simulations to determine the nonequilibrium shear response of a typical glass-former, squalane. Fits of the data to an Eyring model allow us to extrapolate predictions for the equilibrium Newtonian viscosity [Formula: see text] over a range of pressures and temperatures that change [Formula: see text] by 25 orders of magnitude. The results agree with the unusually large set of equilibrium and nonequilibrium experiments on squalane and extend them to higher [Formula: see text] Studies at different pressures and temperatures are inconsistent with a diverging viscosity at finite temperature. At all pressures, the predicted viscosity becomes Arrhenius with a single temperature-independent activation barrier at low temperatures and high viscosities ([Formula: see text] Pa[Formula: see text]s). Possible experimental tests of our results are outlined.

SUBMITTER: Jadhao V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5544323 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Probing large viscosities in glass-formers with nonequilibrium simulations.

Jadhao Vikram V   Robbins Mark O MO  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20170710 30


For decades, scientists have debated whether supercooled liquids stop flowing below a glass transition temperature [Formula: see text] or whether motion continues to slow gradually down to zero temperature. Answering this question is challenging because human time scales set a limit on the largest measurable viscosity, and available data are equally well fit to models with opposite conclusions. Here, we use short simulations to determine the nonequilibrium shear response of a typical glass-forme  ...[more]

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