Cooperative rearrangement

Note that there are, in principle, other ways to move molecules in a glass, in addition to the cooperative rearrangements for example, by creating defects such as vacancies (the corresponding barriers are prohibitively high, of course). 

CRR cooperatively rearranging region introduced to explain the a process of the glass transition... 

Section 11 introduces two examples, one from physics and the other from biology, that are paradigms of nonequilibrium behavior. Section in covers most important aspects of fluctuation theorems, whereas Section IV presents applications of fluctuation theorems to physics and biology. Section V presents the discipline of path thermodynamics and briefly discusses large deviation functions. Section VI discusses the topic of glassy dynamics from the perspective of nonequilibrium fluctuations in small cooperatively rearranging regions. We conclude with a brief discussion of future perspectives. 

This set of equations must be solved together with mass conservation sng t) = constant. The equations can be solved numerically for all parameters of the model. Particularly interesting results are found for g l-Physically, this means that, after rearranging, regions are more prone to lose molecules than to capture them, a reasonable assumption if a cooperative rearrangement leads to a destabilization of the region. A few remarkable results can be inferred from this simple model. 

C. Generahzed Lindemann Criteria for the Stages of Glass Formation Cooperatively Rearranging Regions, Equilibrium Polymerization, and Dynamic Heterogeneity... 

C. Size of Cooperatively Rearranging Regions and the Average Degree of Polymerization Evidence for Universality at the Crossover Temperature Ti... 

XII. COOPERATIVELY REARRANGING REGIONS, EQUILIBRIUM POLYMERIZATION, AND DYNAMIC HETEROGENEITY... 

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