# Influence of the glass transition on the liquid-gas spinodal decomposition

Source: [Influence of the glass transition on the liquid-gas spinodal decomposition](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa2a581e209131ce83d13f>)

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Authors: Vincent Testard, Ludovic Berthier, Walter Kob

Published: 2011-01-12T08:48:07.000Z

## Abstract

We use large-scale molecular dynamics simulations to study the kinetics of the liquid-gas phase separation if the temperature is lowered across the glass transition of the dense phase. We observe a gradual change from phase separated systems at high temperatures to nonequilibrium, gel-like structures that evolve very slowly at low temperatures. The microscopic mechanisms responsible for the coarsening strongly depend on temperature, and change from diffusive motion at high temperature to a strongly intermittent, heterogeneous and thermally activated dynamics at low temperature, leading to logarithmically slow growth of the typical domain size.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2293>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1101.2293.pdf>)