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Are there localized saddles behind the heterogeneous dynamics of supercooled liquids?

D. Coslovich, G. Pastore

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/0607306

Abstract

We numerically study the interplay between heterogeneous dynamics and properties of negatively curved regions of the potential energy surface in a model glassy system. We find that the unstable modes of saddles and quasi-saddles undergo a localization transition close to the Mode-Coupling critical temperature. We also find evidence of a positive spatial correlation between clusters of particles having large displacements in the unstable modes and dynamical heterogeneities.

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