Universal and nonuniversal features of glassy relaxation in propylene carbonate

Citation
W. Gotze et T. Voigtmann, Universal and nonuniversal features of glassy relaxation in propylene carbonate, PHYS REV E, 61(4), 2000, pp. 4133-4147
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW E
ISSN journal
1063651X → ACNP
Volume
61
Issue
4
Year of publication
2000
Part
B
Pages
4133 - 4147
Database
ISI
SICI code
1063-651X(200004)61:4<4133:UANFOG>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
It is demonstrated that the susceptibility spectra of supercooled propylene carbonate as measured by depolarized-light scattering, dielectric-loss, an d incoherent quasielastic neutron-scattering spectroscopy within the GHz wi ndow are simultaneously described by the solutions of a two-component schem atic model of the mode-coupling theory (MCT) for the evolution of glassy dy namics. It is shown that the universal beta-relaxation-scaling laws, dealin g with the asymptotic behavior of the MCT solutions, describe the qualitati ve features of the calculated spectra. But the nonuniversal corrections to the scaling laws render it impossible to achieve a complete quantitative de scription using only the leading-order-asymptotic results.