Strengthening Theories to Predict Fundamental Behavior of Glasses under Pressure (IMAGE)

Nagoya Institute of Technology

Strengthening Theories to Predict Fundamental Behavior of Glasses under Pressure

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Facilitation of excited particles (red) is observed in athermal molecular systems under "supercompressed" liquids. What is facilitated is the ability of the constituent particles to structurally relax, giving rise to correlated and cooperative dynamics.

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