Energy landscape-driven non-equilibrium evolution of inherent structure in disordered material

Fundamental understanding of glass dynamics is challenging owing to their complex non-equilibrium nature and thus the multi-dimensional potential energy landscape. Here, Fanet al. present a model to explore the glass energy landscape driven by thermal activation and relaxation, which are temporally...

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Main Authors: Yue Fan, Takuya Iwashita, Takeshi Egami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15417