Influence of Density and Pressure on Glass Formation in the Kob-Andersen Model

We systematically study glass formation in the well-known Kob-Andersen model over a wide range of densities and pressures as a basis for judging the "universality" of glass formation through a comparison to a recent systematic study of model polymeric glass-forming liquids. Our purpose is to establish general characteristics of glass formation, to identify new relations, and to discern which properties of glass-forming liquids are material-specific and which are "universal." To this end, we analyze a number of characteristic properties of glass formation, such as the structural relaxation time, self-diffusion coefficient, viscosity, characteristic temperatures, and fragility. We also consider a suite of properties presumably related to dynamic heterogeneity in an attempt to better understand its relation to structural relaxation. We demonstrate that the glassy dynamics in the Kob-Andersen model exhibit many of the essential trends observed in polymeric glass-forming liquids, pointing to a remarkable "universality" of many aspects of glass formation.