Autonomously revealing hidden local structures in supercooled liquids

The origin of dynamical slowdown in disordered materials remains elusive, especially in the absence of obvious structural changes. Boattini et al. use unsupervised machine learning to reveal correlations between structural and dynamical heterogeneity in supercooled liquids.

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Main Authors: Emanuele Boattini, Susana Marín-Aguilar, Saheli Mitra, Giuseppe Foffi, Frank Smallenburg, Laura Filion
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/fe002f9f60f94c47b33d4f89d83e76fb
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Summary:The origin of dynamical slowdown in disordered materials remains elusive, especially in the absence of obvious structural changes. Boattini et al. use unsupervised machine learning to reveal correlations between structural and dynamical heterogeneity in supercooled liquids.