By employing computer simulations for a model binary mixture, we show that a reentrant glass transition upon adding a second component occurs only if the ratio alpha of the short-time mobilities between the glass-forming component and the additive is sufficiently small. For alphaapproximate to1, there is no reentrant glass, even if the size asymmetry between the two components is large, in accordance with the two-component mode-coupling theory. For alpha<1, on the other hand, the reentrant glass is observed and reproduced only by an effective one-component mode-coupling theory.
Is there a reentrant glass in binary mixtures?
Zaccarelli E;
2004
Abstract
By employing computer simulations for a model binary mixture, we show that a reentrant glass transition upon adding a second component occurs only if the ratio alpha of the short-time mobilities between the glass-forming component and the additive is sufficiently small. For alphaapproximate to1, there is no reentrant glass, even if the size asymmetry between the two components is large, in accordance with the two-component mode-coupling theory. For alpha<1, on the other hand, the reentrant glass is observed and reproduced only by an effective one-component mode-coupling theory.File in questo prodotto:
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