Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

Exploring the complex free-energy landscape of the simplest glass by rheology

  • Yuliang Jin,
  • Hajime Yoshino

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14935
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The ground states of amorphous solids are predicted to exhibit a complex energy landscape, which cannot be explained by the theories developed for crystals. Jin and Yoshino propose a simple rheological protocol to probe these states, with a demonstration by extensive molecular dynamics simulations.