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ArticleNature communications2019

Identity crisis in alchemical space drives the entropic colloidal glass transition.

Erin G Teich, Greg van Anders, Sharon C Glotzer

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 authors.

Erin G TeichApplied Physics Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA.
Greg van AndersApplied Physics Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9746-2484
Sharon C GlotzerApplied Physics Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA. sglotzer@umich.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A universally accepted explanation for why liquids sometimes vitrify rather than crystallize remains hotly pursued, despite the ubiquity of glass in our everyday lives, the utilization of the glass transition in innumerable modern technologies, and nearly a century of theoretical and experimental investigation. Among the most compelling hypothesized mechanisms underlying glass formation is the development in the fluid phase of local structures that somehow prevent crystallization. Here, we explore that mechanism in the case of hard particle glasses by examining the glass transition in an extended alchemical (here, shape) space; that is, a space where particle shape is treated as a thermodynamic variable. We investigate simple systems of hard polyhedra, with no interactions aside from volume exclusion, and show via Monte Carlo simulation that glass formation in these systems arises from a multiplicity of competing local motifs, each of which is prevalent in-and predictable from-nearby ordered structures in alchemical space.

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PMCPMC6325105

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