Fig. 4: Relaxation maps of the stable TPD glass showing the impact of dynamic facilitation.
a, Growth of several liquid regions as a function of time at Tg1 + 16 K. The growth time is normalized with respect to the observed nucleation time for each nucleus. The radius of the SCL regions represent best fit values to the AFM images. The error bars range between the smallest and largest circles that could fit at least some of the points of the perimeter of the liquid regions, as shown in Supplementary Fig. 12. b, Transformed fraction of liquid versus time. Data points correspond to the total liquid area calculated as explained in the Supplementary Information. The error bars show an uncertainty proportional to the total length of the perimeter of the liquid regions, and are thus considered to be 10% of the transformed fraction. c,d, Spatio-temporal maps of the relaxation of the glass including lateral progression of the liquid by dynamic facilitation at 34% (c) and 90% (d) of transformed fraction. The colour scale marks the time evolution. The nuclei evaluated in a are indicated by numbers.
