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Rotational correlation and dynamic heterogeneity in a kinetically constrained lattice gas
1Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-1460, USA. acpan@berkeley.edu
Abstract:
We study the dynamical heterogeneity and glassy dynamics in a kinetically constrained lattice-gas model which has both translational and rotational degrees of freedom. We find that the rotational relaxation time tracks the structural relaxation time as density is increased whereas the translational diffusion constant exhibits a strong decoupling. We investigate distributions of exchange and persistence times for both the rotational and translational degrees of freedom and compare our results on the distributions of rotational exchange times to recent single molecule studies.
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