中国物理B ›› 2019, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (12): 126101-126101.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/ab4e82

• CONDENSED MATTER: STRUCTURAL, MECHANICAL, AND THERMAL PROPERTIES • 上一篇    下一篇

Metabasin dynamics of supercooled polymer melt

Jian Li(李健), Bo-Kai Zhang(张博凯)   

  1. 1 Department of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Heze University, Heze 274015, China;
    2 Department of Physics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China
  • 收稿日期:2019-08-28 修回日期:2019-10-13 出版日期:2019-12-05 发布日期:2019-12-05
  • 通讯作者: Jian Li E-mail:lijian2006400457@126.com
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11804085) and the Doctoral Foundation of Heze University, China (Grant No. XY18BS13).

Metabasin dynamics of supercooled polymer melt

Jian Li(李健)1, Bo-Kai Zhang(张博凯)2   

  1. 1 Department of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Heze University, Heze 274015, China;
    2 Department of Physics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China
  • Received:2019-08-28 Revised:2019-10-13 Online:2019-12-05 Published:2019-12-05
  • Contact: Jian Li E-mail:lijian2006400457@126.com
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11804085) and the Doctoral Foundation of Heze University, China (Grant No. XY18BS13).

摘要: We employ molecular dynamic simulation to investigate metabasin dynamics for supercooled polymer melt. We find that, in a small system, the α-relaxation process is composed of a few crossing events that the monomers hops from one metabasin to another. Each crossing event is very rapid and involves a democratic movement of many particles, whereas such collective motion is not string-like. Evaluation on the contributions of metabasin exploration and democratic movement shows that the structural relaxation is mostly governed by the latter. Our calculated results show that the metabasin-metabasin transitions are not the main reason of spatially dynamical heterogeneity. It is different from the binary Lennard-Jones mixture model in which the metabasin-metabasin transitions are relevant for the spatially dynamical heterogeneity.

关键词: metabasin dynamics, distance matrix, democratic movement, dynamic heterogeneity

Abstract: We employ molecular dynamic simulation to investigate metabasin dynamics for supercooled polymer melt. We find that, in a small system, the α-relaxation process is composed of a few crossing events that the monomers hops from one metabasin to another. Each crossing event is very rapid and involves a democratic movement of many particles, whereas such collective motion is not string-like. Evaluation on the contributions of metabasin exploration and democratic movement shows that the structural relaxation is mostly governed by the latter. Our calculated results show that the metabasin-metabasin transitions are not the main reason of spatially dynamical heterogeneity. It is different from the binary Lennard-Jones mixture model in which the metabasin-metabasin transitions are relevant for the spatially dynamical heterogeneity.

Key words: metabasin dynamics, distance matrix, democratic movement, dynamic heterogeneity

中图分类号:  (Glasses)

  • 61.43.Fs
64.70.kj (Glasses) 64.70.km (Polymers) 64.70.pj (Polymers)