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The Role of Stochastic Noise on the Glass Transition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Fernando C. Perez-Cardenas  and
Hao Gan
Fernando C. Perez-Cardenas
Affiliation:
Vitreous State Laboratory, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. 20064
Hao Gan
Affiliation:
Vitreous State Laboratory, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. 20064
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Abstract

Glasses are amorphous solids that exhibit an intricate structural relaxation. A broad relaxation time spectrum always emerges when these systems are perturbed. By using a Langevin-type differential equation to describe the structure dynamicsof these materials, it is depicted how the broad relaxation time spectrum arises due to the stochastic noise and how this affects the system's structure evolution as it is cooled down into the glass transition region. This stochastic model provides a macroscopic as well a microscopic view of the glass relaxation process.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 407: Symposium M – Disordered Materials and Interfaces-Fractals, structure and Dynamics , 1995 , 203
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1996

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