Cooperative motion and growing length scales in supercooled confined liquids Export

@article{citeulike:2836362, abstract = {Using molecular-dynamics simulations we investigate the relaxation dynamics of a supercooled liquid close to a rough as well as to a smooth wall. For the former situation the relaxation times increase strongly with decreasing distance from the wall, whereas in the second case they strongly decrease. We use this dependence to extract various dynamical length scales and show that they grow with decreasing temperature. Finally, we calculate the frequency-dependent average susceptibility of such confined systems and show that they compare very well with experimental data.}, author = {Scheidler, P. and Kob, W. and Binder, K.}, citeulike-article-id = {2836362}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2002-00182-9}, doi = {10.1209/epl/i2002-00182-9}, journal = {EPL (Europhysics Letters)}, keywords = {boundary, confinement, simulation}, number = {5}, pages = {701--707}, posted-at = {2009-04-13 21:19:05}, priority = {2}, title = {Cooperative motion and growing length scales in supercooled confined liquids}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2002-00182-9}, volume = {59}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2836362 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2836362 N2 - Using molecular-dynamics simulations we investigate the relaxation dynamics of a supercooled liquid close to a rough as well as to a smooth wall. For the former situation the relaxation times increase strongly with decreasing distance from the wall, whereas in the second case they strongly decrease. We use this dependence to extract various dynamical length scales and show that they grow with decreasing temperature. Finally, we calculate the frequency-dependent average susceptibility of such confined systems and show that they compare very well with experimental data. IS - 5 JF - EPL (Europhysics Letters) EP - 707 TI - Cooperative motion and growing length scales in supercooled confined liquids VL - 59 SP - 701 KW - boundary KW - confinement KW - simulation AU - Scheidler, P AU - Kob, W AU - Binder, K PY - 2002/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2002-00182-9 ER -