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