Figure 3
From: Connectivity and free-surface effects in polymer glasses
(A) The packing fraction of particles within the ‘bulk’ as a function of ε. (B) The fraction of particles that are glassy i.e that satisfy Maxwell’s central force marginal rigidity condition (z ≥ 6) for a range of ε values, with an exponential fit. (C) A linear relation between the number of contacts in the ‘bulk’ zbulk and the packing fraction ϕ. (D) A 3D cubic spline-curve representation of a simulation snapshot of a single collapsed glassy N = 1000 chain with domains of high displacement (red) and low displacement (green) in the dynamically arrested ‘bulk’.
