Ideal glass transition phase does not exist
JUN 12, 2006
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.020175
Live Science : A paper in Physical Review Letters suggests that phase transitions , the point at which matter turns from liquid to solid is continuous and not at a discrete point as previously believed. The results are from computer simulations by Salvatore Torquato of Princeton University and colleagues, not experimental evidence."What we’re saying is you could have this continuous change from most disordered to most ordered, and there are an infinite number of possible transition phases between these points,” Torquato told LiveScience. “It puts another nail in the coffin for [the ideal transition] theory."Related paper Do Binary Hard Disks Exhibit an Ideal Glass Transition?
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