Baicheng Mei

TL;DR: The Ornstein-Zernike integral equation theory with the Percus-Yevick and modified-Verlet closures is employed to study the equilibrium structural and thermodynamic properties of metastable monodisperse hard sphere and continuous repulsion Weeks-Chandler-Andersen (WCA) fluids under density and temperature conditions where the system is strongly overcompressed or supercooled.

TL;DR: The discovered correlation of activated relaxation with a thermodynamic property (dimensionless compressibility) is not causal in ECNLE theory, but rather reflects a strong connection between the local structural quantities that quantify kinetic constraints in the theory with the amplitude of long wavelength density fluctuations.

TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that activated relaxation is a spatially coupled local-nonlocal event with barriers quantified by local pair structure, which can also be understood based on the dimensionless compressibility via an equilibrium statistical mechanics connection between thermodynamics and structure.

TL;DR: The connection between slow activated relaxation in glass-forming liquids and various equilibrium thermodynamic properties remains intensely debated as discussed by the authors, and the microscopic elastically collective nonlinea, i.e.

TL;DR: In this article, a microscopic theory at the level of segment-scale correlated space-time intermolecular forces for the long-time center-of-mass diffusion constant and intermediate-time non-Fickia diffusion constant is presented.