{
  "id": "cond-mat/0202036",
  "version": "v3",
  "published": "2002-02-02T18:12:03.000Z",
  "updated": "2003-08-25T12:41:34.000Z",
  "title": "The breakdown of the shear modulus at the glass transition",
  "authors": [
    "U. Buchenau"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 5 figures, 13 references; version 2 changed in title, reduced claims and modified arguments according to referee criticque from PRL. One equation was omitted; otherwise equations are unchanged Paper rejected by PRL; Version 3 accepted as part of the proceedings Workshop Disordered Solids in Andalo 2003 to appear in Phil. Mag. B",
  "journal": "Phil. Mag. 84, 1333 (2004)",
  "doi": "10.1080/147864303100001644071",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.dis-nn"
  ],
  "abstract": "The glass transition is described in terms of thermally activated local structural rearrangements, the secondary relaxations of the glass phase. The interaction between these secondary relaxations leads to a much faster and much more dramatic breakdown of the shear modulus than without interaction, thus creating the impression of a separate primary process which in reality does not exist. The model gives a new view on the fragility and the stretching, two puzzling features of the glass transition.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v3",
      "updated": "2003-08-25T12:41:34.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "glass transition",
      "shear modulus",
      "secondary relaxations",
      "thermally activated local structural rearrangements",
      "separate primary process"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "journal": "Philosophical Magazine",
      "year": 2004,
      "month": "May",
      "volume": 84,
      "number": 13,
      "pages": 1333
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2004PMag...84.1333B"
    }
  }
}