The Perfect Glass Paradigm: Disordered Hyperuniform Glasses Down to Absolute Zero.

ABSTRACT: Rapid cooling of liquids below a certain temperature range can result in a transition to glassy states. The traditional understanding of glasses includes their thermodynamic metastability with respect to crystals. However, here we present specific examples of interactions that eliminate the possibilities of crystalline and quasicrystalline phases, while creating mechanically stable amorphous glasses down to absolute zero temperature. We show that this can be accomplished by introducing a new ideal state of matter called a "perfect glass". A perfect glass represents a soft-interaction analog of the maximally random jammed (MRJ) packings of hard particles. These latter states can be regarded as the epitome of a glass since they are out of equilibrium, maximally disordered, hyperuniform, mech

SUBMITTER: Zhang G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5125002 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature