Year: 2021
Type: preprint
Abstract: The rapid structural and vibrational entropy decrease with decreasing temperature in undercooled liquids is explained in terms of the disappearance of local structural instabilities, which freeze in at the glass temperature as boson peak modes and low temperature tunneling states. At the Kauzmann temperature, their density extrapolates to zero, as evidenced by neutron and heat capacity data in liquid selenium.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Author: Buchenau, U.
Institution: Forschungszentrum Jülich
Language: English
Subfield: Materials Chemistry
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4293125557