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Growing spatial correlations of particle displacements in a simulated liquid on cooling toward the glass transition

Claudio Donati, Sharon C. Glotzer, Peter H. Poole

cond-mat.softarXiv:cond-mat/9811145

Abstract

We define a correlation function that quantifies the spatial correlation of single-particle displacements in liquids and amorphous materials. We show for an equilibrium liquid that this function is related to fluctuations in a bulk dynamical variable. We evaluate this function using computer simulations of an equilibrium glass-forming liquid, and show that long range spatial correlations of displacements emerge and grow on cooling toward the mode coupling critical temperature.

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