Data and scripts from: Zero-temperature glass transition in two dimensions

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  • Liquids cooled towards the glass transition temperature transform into amorphous solids that have a wide range of applications. While the nature of this transformation is understood rigorously in the mean-field limit of infinite spatial dimensions, the problem remains wide open in physical dimensions. Nontrivial finite-dimensional fluctuations are hard to control analytically, and experiments fail to provide conclusive evidence regarding the nature of the glass transition. Here, we develop Monte Carlo methods for two-dimensional glass-forming liquids that allow us to access equilibrium states at sufficiently low temperatures to directly probe the glass transition in a regime inaccessible to experiments. We find that the liquid state terminates at a thermodynamic glass transition which occurs at zero temperature and is associated with an entropy crisis and a diverging static correlation length. Our results thus demonstrate that a thermodynamic glass transition can occur in finite dimensional glass-formers. ... [Read More]

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  • Berthier, L., Charbonneau, P., Ninarello, A., Ozawa, M., & Yaida, S. (2019). Data and scripts from: Zero-temperature glass transition in two dimensions. Duke Digital Repository. https://doi.org/10.7924/r46w9b248
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  • 10.7924/r46w9b248
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  • Simons Foundation (#454937, P. Charbonneau)
  • Simons Foundation (#454933, L. Berthier)
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  • Data and scripts from: Zero-temperature glass transition in two dimensions