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A Molecular Dynamics Study Of The Structure-Dynamics Relationships Of Supercooled Liquids And Glasses, Ryan Joseph Soklaski

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Central to the field of condensed matter physics is a decades old outstanding problem in the study of glasses – namely explaining the extreme slowing of dynamics in a liquid as it is supercooled towards the so-called glass transition. Efforts to universally describe the stretched relaxation processes and heterogeneous dynamics that characteristically develop in supercooled liquids remain divided in both their approaches and successes. Towards this end, a consensus on the role that atomic and molecular structures play in the liquid is even more tenuous. However, mounting material science research efforts have culminated to reveal that the vast diversity of …