Fig. 4: Liquids on S2 behave like 3D liquids in the limit of strong curvature. | Nature Communications

Fig. 4: Liquids on S2 behave like 3D liquids in the limit of strong curvature.

From: Cooperatively rearranging regions change shape near the mode-coupling crossover for colloidal liquids on a sphere

Fig. 4

The figure shows the diffusion coefficient D versus τ (open black squares) and DCR versus τCR (red filled circles) for supercooled liquids on the surface of a sphere scale. The exponent in both cases is nearly same with κ ≈ κCR ≈ 0.75. The green dash-dot line is a guide to the eye and indicates slope 1. The inset to the figure shows particle trajectories on the sphere displaying intermittent caging with abrupt hops. This behavior is typical of deeply supercooled liquids in 3D Euclidean space17.

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