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Geometrical frustration and static correlations in hard-sphere glass formers

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2013-03-28

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Charbonneau, Benoit
Charbonneau, Patrick
Tarjus, Gilles

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American Institute of Physics

Abstract

We analytically and numerically characterize the structure of hard-sphere fluids in order to review various geometrical frustration scenarios of the glass transition. We find generalized polytetrahedral order to be correlated with increasing fluid packing fraction, but to become increasingly irrelevant with increasing dimension. We also find the growth in structural correlations to be modest in the dynamical regime accessible to computer simulations.

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This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. The following article appeared in Charbonneau, B., Charbonneau, P., & Tarjus, G. (2013). Geometrical frustration and static correlations in hard-sphere glass formers. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 138(12), 12A515, and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4770498

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Poisson's equation, Polytopes, Relaxation times, Correlation functions, Crystallization

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https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4770498
 http://hdl.handle.net/10012/11903

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