We have performed time-resolved optical Kerr effect experiments with heterodyne detection on benzene. We succeeded in supercooling benzene by 21 K below the melting point T-m = 279 K, and we investigated the full range of existence from the supercooled phase up to the boiling point T-b = 353 K. Our time-resolved data show clearly the complex relaxation pattern of benzene that is characterized by different time scales. These dynamic features, common to many other molecular liquids, to date have not been addressed and there is not a unique theoretical model able to explain them, even in a simple molecular liquid such as benzene. We compare our data with the predictions of a schematic mode-coupling model,fitting the experimental relaxations with a numerical solution of the time-dependent correlation functions. Although the temperature range investigated is clearly outside the asymptotic scaling regime, we found the mode-coupling model able to describe properly the measured dynamics in large time and temperature ranges.
Time-resolved optical Kerr effect experiments on supercooled benzene and test of mode-coupling theory / M.RICCI; S.WIEBEL; P.BARTOLINI; A.TASCHIN; R. TORRE. - In: PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE. - ISSN 1478-6435. - STAMPA. - 84:(2004), pp. 1491-1499.
Time-resolved optical Kerr effect experiments on supercooled benzene and test of mode-coupling theory.
RICCI, MARILENA;BARTOLINI, PAOLO;TASCHIN, ANDREA;TORRE, RENATO
2004
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We have performed time-resolved optical Kerr effect experiments with heterodyne detection on benzene. We succeeded in supercooling benzene by 21 K below the melting point T-m = 279 K, and we investigated the full range of existence from the supercooled phase up to the boiling point T-b = 353 K. Our time-resolved data show clearly the complex relaxation pattern of benzene that is characterized by different time scales. These dynamic features, common to many other molecular liquids, to date have not been addressed and there is not a unique theoretical model able to explain them, even in a simple molecular liquid such as benzene. We compare our data with the predictions of a schematic mode-coupling model,fitting the experimental relaxations with a numerical solution of the time-dependent correlation functions. Although the temperature range investigated is clearly outside the asymptotic scaling regime, we found the mode-coupling model able to describe properly the measured dynamics in large time and temperature ranges.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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