Investigating amorphous order in stable glasses by random pinning

C.J. Fullerton, R.L. Jack

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Abstract

We investigate stable glassy states that are found when glass-forming liquids are biased to lower than average dynamical activity. By pinning the positions of randomly chosen particles, we show that many-body correlations in these states are relatively strong and long ranged compared to equilibrium reference states. The presence of strong many-body correlations in these apparently disordered systems supports the idea that stable glassy states exhibit a kind of "amorphous order," which helps to explain their stability.
Original languageEnglish
Article number255701
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume112
Issue number25
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Jun 2014

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