Evidence of growing spatial correlations at the glass transition from nonlinear susceptibility measurements

C. Brun; C. Crauste-Thibierge; D. L'Hôte; F. Ladieu; G. Biroli; J.-P. Bouchaud

Evidence of growing spatial correlations at the glass transition from nonlinear susceptibility measurements

C. Brun ¹ C. Crauste-Thibierge ² D. L'Hôte ¹ F. Ladieu ¹ G. Biroli ³ J.-P. Bouchaud

1 SPEC - UMR3680 - Service de physique de l'état condensé

2 LLB - UMR 12 - Laboratoire Léon Brillouin

3 IPHT - Institut de Physique Théorique - UMR CNRS 3681

Abstract : The ac nonlinear dielectric response 3 ð!; TÞ of glycerol was measured close to its glass transition temperature Tg to investigate the prediction that supercooled liquids respond in an increasingly nonlinear way as the dynamics slows down (as spin glasses do). We find that 3 ð!; TÞ indeed displays several nontrivial features. It is peaked as a function of the frequency ! and obeys scaling as a function of !ðTÞ, with ðTÞ the relaxation time of the liquid. The height of the peak, proportional to the number of dynamically correlated molecules Ncorr ðTÞ, increases as the system becomes glassy, and 3 decays as a power law of ! over several decades beyond the peak. These findings confirm the collective nature of the glassy dynamics and provide the first direct estimate of the T dependence of Ncorr

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