Emergence of rigidity at the structural glass transition: a first principle computation
arXiv:1003.3039 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.015504
Abstract
We compute the shear modulus of structural glasses from a first principle approach based on the cloned liquid theory. We find that the intra-state shear-modulus, which corresponds to the plateau modulus measured in linear visco-elastic measurements, strongly depends on temperature and vanishes continuously when the temperature is increased beyond the glass temperature.
5 pages, 2 figures. Revised version. An error in Fig 2 due to an error in the plotting program is corrected. The revised figure is submitted to PRL as an erratum