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Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 104 (1988) 253-260 253

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EFFECT OF DISORDER ON DIFFUSION AND VISCOSITY IN CONDENSED SYSTEMS

I. AVRAMOV and A. MILCHEV


Institute of Physical Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1040 Sofia, Bulgaria

Received 24 December 1986


Revised manuscript received 5 February 1988

A simple theoretical model describing the influence of disorder on transport properties (viscosity, diffusion coefficients, etc.)
in undercooled melts and crystals is suggested. The basic assumption is that structural disarray results in a random probability
distribution of energy barriers for diffusion characterized by dispersion o around some mean value ( E ) . It is shown that the
effect of o on the mean j u m p frequency ( v ( E ) ) m a y lead to corrections of many order of magnitude as compared to the
hopping frequency calculated traditionally in terms of the average activation energy ( E ) only. The temperature course of
( v ( E ) ) is then examined making use of the relation between o and the entropy of the system S. Thus an analytical formula is
obtained which properly describes molecular transport in both the crystalline and the amorphous state. Even in a simplified
form, ~/= 7/0 exp(fl/T~), it reproduces well the existing data on temperature variation of viscosity *1 (or self-diffusion) in
glassforming melts.
In another aspect - in terms of the percolation theory - the model describes the diffusion of a foreign particle in a rigid
host structure and yields also a qualitative estimate of the variation of the percolation threshold Ep with the degree of
amorphisation o.

1. Introduction Meanwhile the kinetic behaviour of, say, dense


fluids near a glass transition is quite complex and
Recently there has been a vivid interest in its description from microscopic principles re-
modelling of amorphous condensed media which mains an unsolved problem in condensed matter
reveal some unique properties important for prac- physics [6,7]. The most encouraging attempts at
tical applications (e.g. amorphous semiconductors present for a rigorous microscopic treatment apply
[1], solid electrolytes on the basis of oxide glasses predominantly to simplified models of disordered
[2], metallic glasses [3] or fibre optics [4]). It has systems. (a hard sphere liquid [8], a kinetic Ising
long been known that disordered systems of dif- model [9], or a Lennard-Jones fluid [10]) and,
ferent nature show remarkable similarities in some although providing a deeper insight into the prob-
physical properties, such as, e.g., the temperature lem, are still uncapable of describing the be-
course of various thermodynamic quantities in haviour of typical glassforming melts. For this
undercooled melts [5]. The analysis of existing latter purpose experimentalists usually employ
data on transport properties in disordered systems empirical expressions such as those of
suggests that: Fogel-Fulcher-Tamann [11] (William-Lendel-
(1). The activation energy of the transport pro- Ferry in polymers [12]) or the result of Adam and
cess decreases with growing temperature (i.e. a Gibbs [13], or models based on a "free volume"
non-Arrhenius viscosity vs. temperature be- description of liquids [14-17].
haviour). In the present paper we suggest a very general
(2). Diffusion coefficients in disordered materi- phenomenological model for the description of
als are generally higher than in the respective transport in condensed systems in a state of either
crystalline phases. dynamic (self-diffusion), or static (percolation)
(3). Transport properties are highly sensitive disorder within the framework of the activated
with respect to structural changes. complex theory [18,19]. The idea that spatial dis-
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order inevitably leads to some probability distri- While in a perfectly ordered crystal one could
bution of the activation energies for elementary assume the existance of a single activation energy,
jumps, exploited in a previous paper [20], is hereby E~, spatial disorder in an amorphous system should
further developed. The activation energy disper- imply the activation energy E being a random
sion o which should nearly vanish in the crystal is variable, subject to some probability distribution
expressed by means of the entropy S of the sys- P(E). Assuming that the hopping particle may
tem, and thus related to existing temperature mea- use Z different channels to move out from one
surements. Assuming that a hopping particle has coordination sphere into another ( Z could be
always Z channels available to move from a pre- viewed as roughly proportional to the coordina-
sent position, each channel with a different energy tion number of the lattice), it is clear that both Z
barrier E according to the probability distribution and P ( E ) will determine the average transition
function (PDF), P(E), we calculate the average rate of particles between neighbouring sites. Evi-
transition rate v(o(T)) as indicative for viscosity dently, in the case of dynamic disorder, %e, ~< %op,
or diffusion in the system. after each successive j u m p the particle faces the
In the spirit of the comprehensive arguments of same degree of disorder as before, if one neglects
Druger et al. [21], we identify self-diffusion in for the time being "correlated renewal" of the
liquids with the case of dynamic disorder when local environment.
the mean time for system evolution renewal 'Iren is In ref. [20] we determined the probability W ( E )
comparable with the average particle hopping time that the hopper will overcome a barrier of height
%op. In cases when rr~n >> %op, that is, in cases of between E and E + d E, if the energy barriers are
static disorder, one deals with a situation where a distributed over Z escape channels with a prob-
description in terms of a percolation theory should ability P(E), and the particle goes as a rule over
be appropriate. In this case we estimate the im- the lowest barrier:
pact of a varying degree of disorder on the perco-
W(E) .dE
lation threshold energy Ep for a tracer under
"soft" percolation conditions, i.e. when more or
less conductive (or rapid) bonds (channels) are
encountered by the hopper according to the P D F
P(E). In this second aspect our work confirms
and extends some recent results of Solovev [22].
where Emax is the largest possible value of E.
Using eq. (2) one obtains for the mean transition
2. Description of the theoretical model rate

(IQ) = foEmaxw( E) . ~)( E ) ° d E , (3)


The transition rate v within the framework of
the activated complex theory [18,19] is related to which can be solved for any specified choice of
some activation energy barrier E by means of P(E). It is to be expected that the form of the
P D F P ( E ) should depend on the peculiarities of
v = vo • exp ( - E / R T ), (1)
the particular system under consideration. We try
where vo is the frequency of vibration of a particle several analytical forms for P ( E ) which could
within an energetic cell (v o -- 109-1012) and R is reproduce the unknown genuine P D F with a vary-
the gas constant. The shear viscosity ~/ is defined ing degree of accuracy (fig. 1). Activation barriers,
as 7/= G/v with G the infinity frequency shear much larger than those in the ordered state, E c,
modulus, and, respectively, the diffusion coeffi- appear highly improbable since neighbouring par-
cient, D, as D ( T ) = a 2. v ( T ) / 2 d where a is the ticles can hardly get any nearer than in the crystal.
mean jumping distance and d stands for the di- In all trial P D F we assume therefore E m a x = E c.
mension of space. Moreover, it appears reasonable to restrict the
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(b) Poisson distribution (fig. l(b))


P(E)I P(E) = e(E-e°'/"o-l[1 - e-&/o] -'
(7)
O~E<~E¢.
W(E) = Z e¢L" &)/oo-l(1 - e - e ¢ / ° ) - l
P(E)[ Eg E

×
Z-1
(8)
k=0 k '

E zv(E )
(o) =
P(E)I (1 - e Ec/°) z

z-'(-1)"(Z-1) "/°-'/°'-1]

P(E)l Ec E
× n~= 0 o/RT- n - 1
(9)
• O" -
(c) Gaussian distribution (fig. l(c))
Ec E
2 e -(Ec/o-E/°)2
Fig. 1. PDFs P(E) for the activation energy barrier E: (a), in a P(E) = , O<~E<~E¢, (10)
real system (schematic); (b), truncated Poisson PDF; (c), of~erf( E J o )
truncated Gaussian PDF; (d), uniform PDF.

W( E) = z [ erf( E c /E° -j o )E / ° ) ]

PDF to cover non-negative activation barriers 2 e -(E~/a-E/°)2


only, i.e. we have 0 ~< E ~<E c as a definition range × ov~erf(Ec/o ) , (11)
of P(E).
Making use of eqs. (1)-(3) one obtains in the (v) = fo&W(E) • v ( E ) . dE, (12)
case of:
(a) Uniform distribution (fig. l(d)) whereby in eqs. (10)-(12) we use the error func-
P(E)=I/o, o<~Ec, (4) tion,
_ 2 r X _t 2
e r f ( x ) - ~ - - J0 e dt.
W(E) =Z(Ec-E)Z-l/oz
o ~< E ~
In eq. (12) one can derive a close analytical
(5)
expression only for the case of Z = 1, while higher
Z should be dealt with numerically. However, the
- final results in eqs. (9) and (12) for all Z may be
(o/RT) Z put in a very simple form if one takes into account
that the expressions in square brackets in eqs. (8)
×(e-,O/.r,z~l (-1)k(Z-1)! and (11) equal very nearly unity for o >/RT and E
varying within that part of the interval where the
rest of the integrand contributes most to the value
Ct Z - l - k ) of the integral. So, one can put approximately
×(~-~) -(-1)z-'(Z -1)! . (6) (o.) = Z . (vl). The correctness of this approxi-
mation has been confirmed by our computations
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and, since it substantially simplifies the analytical (c) Gaussian PDF


results, we use it extensively hereafter.
The exact results for Z = 1 are: S - So= ~ - { l n ( o / O o ) + ln[erf( Ec/o)
(a) Poisson PDF
eE~(o/RT - 1)/o _ 1 /erf( EJoo)]
(Vl) = v(E~) (1 - e - E ° / ° ) ( o / R T - 1)" (13)
1 [ Ec e -(E°/°)2
+ ~-~ [-o-" e r f ( E J o )
(b) Gaussian PDF
E~ e -(e¢/°o): ]}
(Vl> = o(E~)
- --%o" erf(EJoo) " (18)
eft( E J o - 0 / 2 R T ) + e r f ( o / 2 R T )
It can be readily shown that in eqs. (16)-(18)
× erf(EJo) the contribution of all but the first term on the rhs
is vanishing, so
× e (°/2Rr)~. (14)

The dispersion o reflects the degree of disorder


S-So= 7R Z- . ln(o/o0) (19)

in the system and is connected with an entropy S, is a very good approximation to eqs. (16)-(18) for
every reasonable choice of the parameters E~, o,
s = - - 5R-Z. foeCP(E).ln P ( E ) . d E + const. and %.
In line with the considerations above we express
(15) the viscosity 7/ in the case of a Poisson PDF, cf.
eq. (13), as
In eq. (15) it is taken into account that a system of
N particles has N Z / 2 escape channels and that G (o/RT- 1)(1 - e -eo/°) (20)
the various activation barriers occur statistically •tI = Z o O e-Ec/o _ e-E¢/RT

independently. Since in the dependence of S on o


For a constant heat capacity, Cp = A, one has for
in eq. (15) an unknown constant is always present,
the entropy,
we operate rather with the entropy difference S -
So where SO is some reference entropy correspond-
ing to dispersion %. For the three PDFs under , ,0
consideration one obtains from eq. (15) with eq.
(4), or (7), or (10) the entropy as: where To is the temperature at which the entropy
(a) Uniform PDF is So. With eq. (21), eq. (20) may be further
simplified for R T < o < Ec. Then one has in di-
mensionless temperature, 0 = T I T m,
S - SO= ff-~-ln(o/o0), o ~ E~. (16)
In 7/= In no + fl/0'~, (22)
(b) Poisson PDF where
1 -- e - E J °
S - So = ~ - [ l n ( o/Oo) + ln
1 - e -Ec/°° n°=z-~oo RT~ 1 , f l = ~ o t To ]
1 - e - & / ° ( 1 - e -~°/°) and
1 -- e - E ' / ° a = 2A/RZ
distinguishes through the value of Cp whether the
1 - e-E°/"°(1 - e -&/°°) ]
system is in a liquid or in a crystalline state. In eq.
+ 1- ~ e_------e-~ ]. (17)
(12) one has three parameters, a, fl and ~/o, which
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can be estimated to be confined within the follow- Using eq. (19), one obtains for o
ing range of variation, A / 2 R <~ a < ~ A / 6 R , re-
spectively, I O / Z <~ a <~ 5 0 / Z , 0.1 ~< fl ~< 5 and
o = o0 ( T / r 0 ) 2A/RZ, (26)
10-2 ~< ~/0 ~< 102 (poise).
An analogous simple relation for ~ and a
Gaussian P D F (making use of eq. (14)) has not which should be inserted into the expressions for
been derived. Our numerical calculations have ( v ) . At TO the system in equilibrium is assumed to
shown, however, that the 7/ vs. T relationships be characterized by dispersion %. According to
calculated with Gaussian and with Poisson PDFs the theory of thermodynamic fluctuations, one
do not differ significantly; moreover, they can be could expect oo ~ R T0.
made to coincide for a slightly different choice of Usually there are two experimentally observed
parameters. quantities which directly reflect the rate of molec-
ular motion in condensed media - viscosity ~/ and
self-diffusion coefficient D - both expressed in
3. Comparison with experiment terms of ( o ) . Since D is reciprocal to ~/, we
confine our study to the temperature course of
Concerning the physical meaning of S, one viscosity where a huge body of experimental data
should bear in mind that it reflects the degree of exists [27].
spatial disorder of the structural building units A comparison of our results with existing ex-
whereby their internal structure is considered ir- perimental data can be made, provided the param-
relevant. For that reason contribution to entropy, eters of the model are known or can be estimated.
due to internal degrees of freedom of the building Quite generally one can argue that:
units should not be taken into account. So we (1). E c is expected to be between 10 and 100
assume that S in our model comprises the config- kcal/mol.
urational part of the entropy of the disordered (2). The value of G / Z v o is between 10 -2 and 10
system, AS, plus the vibrational entropy of an poise.
ideal classical crystal with Cp = 3R. In ref. [23] it (3). The number of escape channels Z is practi-
has been shown that A S of undercooled melts can cally the coordination number, 2 ~< Z ~< 12, as
be calculated with sufficient accuracy under the far as short range order is retained even in
assumption that the excess heat capacity, ACp, is liquids.
constant above TO, In fig. 2 the temperature course of viscosity as
following from eq. (20), combined with eqs. (25),
(; f°r0< T < T°
Z~Cp = (23) (26), is plotted for a typical glassforming system,
=const, for To~<T~<Tm glucose, both for the crystal (dashed line) as well
To is usually identified as marking the point as for the undercooled melt (full line), and is
where the entropy curves of the undercooled melt compared with the simplified result, eq. (22) (dots).
and of the respective crystal merge [24-26]. For a Evidently eq. (20) not only reproduces fairly well
great variety of glassforming melts To is known to the existing data, but for the first time predicts
be of the order of 0.3-0.5 of the melting tempera- also a finite viscosity in the vicinity of To, as has
ture Tm. recently been observed [28]. In contrast, other
Taking into account eq. (23), one has for the models [13-17] predict 7/= oe at T = TO and a
entropy: vanishing self-diffusion coefficient in the respec-
tive crystalline state at any T. In the present
S - S O= A . I n ( T / T o ) , (24) model the viscosity of the crystal appears always
where high enough so that it is solid up to the melting
point, resulting, however, in a non-zero value for
C + 3R for liquids, (25) the self-diffusion coefficient D s, in agreement with
A= 3R for crystals. experimental evidence.
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24 Table 1

Substance log */o a fl


Glucose - 1.48 6.26 3.82
18
Se - 0.47 4.42 3.27
B203 1.26 3.15 9.52
NaPO 3 0.94 8.33 0.48
LiPO 3 0.38 5.53 2.26

6
[33]). In fig. 3 it is shown that eq. (22) describes
fairly well the experimental data with values of the
parameters a, /3 and */c, given in table 1.
0 I I I I

1.0 1.3 1,6


Tm/T 4. Diffusion of foreign particles
Fig. 2. Dependence of viscosity 7/ on dimensionless tempera-
ture 0 = T/Tm for glucose: full line, undercooled melt accord-
ing to eq. (20) with E 0 = 30.5 kcal/mol, E c / o 0 = 122, Z = 6 As mentioned in the Introduction, in the case
and ACp = 18R [29]; dashed line, "viscosity" of the crystal, eq. of ~'rcn>> ~'hop one deals with a situation when
(20), with Cp = 3R; dotted line, according to the approxima- foreign particles diffuse through a "frozen in"
tion, eq. (22). Experimental data from refs. [29,30]. host structure in a state of static disorder. Now
the activation energy barriers may still be distrib-
Figure 2 also shows that in coordinates log ~/ uted over the channels according to the same
vs. 0 -1 the simplified result, eq. (22), does not PDF, P ( E ) , but the "easy escape" probability
deviate significantly from the solution (20) within W ( E ) eq. (10) cannot be used to calculate ( v )
the temperature interval of practical interest. In because successive jumps are strongly correlated
order to examine the ability of eq. (22) of repro- and a percolation theory consideration of the
ducing experimental data on viscosity, it has been problem appears more justified. Solovev [22] has
applied to different types of glassforming sub- suggested to define a percolation threshold barrier
stances - an organic (glucose [30]), semimetal (Se gp a s
[31]), oxide glass (B20 3 [27]) and two
methaphosphate glasses (NaPO 3 [32] and LiPO 3 f0EPP(E ) . d E = Pc, (26)

16 I , , ,
where the critical concentration of conducting
channels, Pc, depends both on the number of
available escape channels Z and on space dimen-
sion d. There exist a number of estimates for Pc in
the literature (see Ziman [34]) and here we adopt
the formula
d
Pc (d- 1)Z' (27)

which is shown to be satisfied within a few per


cent in all cases [35]. For the variation of the
percolation energy threshold, Ep, one obtains then:
0~1 0.7 1.0 1.3 1,6 (a) Uniform P D F
Tm/T E p / E c = 1 - (1 - Pc) o / E c , 0 <~o <~ E c. (28a)
Fig. 3. Variation of viscosity with temperature for glucose [29]
A, Se [30] D, B203 [27] E, N a P O 3 [31] O, LiPO 3 [32] ©. Model (b) Poisson P D F
results, acc. to eq. (22), are plotted with parameters given in
table 1.
E p / E c = ( a / E c ) l n ( p c e Eo/° + 1 - P c ) - (288)
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(c) Gaussian PDF 7 , , , I , , i , ,

erf[(1 - Ep/Ec) ( E j o ) ] = (1 - P c ) e r f ( E c / o ) .
(28c)

it is evident from eqs. (28a-c) that E p / E c ~ 1 for


o ~ 0 and that Ep/E c --*Pc for E J o >11. ~-2
The average transition rate (%) depends on o
by means of E p ,
(Vp> = v o " e - E p / I c T (29)

With eqs. (28b) and (23) the temperature course of


<vp> is shown in fig. 4 for o0 = 1000, E c --=6 X 10 4 -11
119 1.3 1.7
cal/mol, Z=4, T0 = 5 0 0 K and Tm = 1 0 0 0 Tm/T ~
whereby curve 1 corresponds to an undercooled Fig. 5. Variation of rhop with temperature in the case of
amorphous phase, A = 10R, while curve 2 repre- dynamic (curve 1, eq. (20)), and static (curve 2, eq. (29))
sents the respective crystalline state A = 3R. The disorder; Z = 6, Cp = 1 6 R , E 0 = 50 kcal/mol, E c / o o =100,
inlet shows data measurements on specific resistiv- To = T~/2 = 1000 K.
ity of lithium acetate as reported in ref. [36].
It is of interest to compare <v> as obtained for strongly favours (up to 9 orders of magnitude) the
the case of dynamic disorder in sect. 2 to <Vp> transport process.
corresponding to static disorder for the same set In general the system renewal in the case of
of parameters. This is illustrated in fig. 5. It is seen dynamic disorder may not necessarily occur com-
that both curves have qualitatively the same shape pletely at random, but rather in correlated steps.
with (v> >1<vp>. In both cases, for vanishing o it If has been suggested by Druger et al. [21] that in
is only E c which determines the energetic barrier this case lower diffusion rates should be expected
for diffusion while for very large dispersion o for the same number of overall renewals, since
there is a sufficient number of channels with low bottlenecks would be less efficiently bypassed.
energy barriers, so that hopping is not thermally The result of fig. 5 clearly confirms this predict-
activated. In these two extreme cases both curves ion. Moreover, curves 1 and 2 of fig. 5 may be
actually merge. There is an intermediate range of regarded as envelope curves for a number of inter-
variation of o, however, where dynamic disorder mediate cases of quasi-static disorder in which Zren
is larger but still comparable to %op.
11.0 . . . . . . . .

5. Concluding remarks
6.5 2
In the present work we have developed a simple
model describing transport processes in condensed
systems with varying degree of disorder. Based on
the assumption that structural disorder results in a
random probability distribution of the activation
2.5 energy for molecular transport, the model predicts
a non-Arrhenius dependence of viscosity of under-
cooled melts on temperature. As a merit of the
7.0
0.9 1.1 1.3 1.5 1.7 model one obtains a nonzero value of the self-
T~/T diffusion coefficient in crystals as well as a finite
Fig. 4. Dependence of "/'hopOil temperature from eq. (29): curve viscosity of the undercooled melt in the vicinity of
1, undercooled melt; curve 2, crystalline state. T0. For practical use we suggest the simplified eq.
260 L Avramov, A. Milcheo / Diffusion and viscosity in condensed systems

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