Abstract
A three-time correlation function of particle displacements is introduced and numerically calculated by performing molecular dynamics simulations of binary soft-sphere supercooled systems. It is found that the two-dimensional representations of the three-time correlation function reveal couplings of particle motions that exist over a wide range of time scales. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the systematic change in the second time interval in the three-time correlation function enables us to analyze how the correlations in mobility decay with time. From this analysis, the characteristic time scale of dynamical heterogeneity is quantified. We find that the dynamical heterogeneity time scale becomes much slower than the α-relaxation time as the temperature decreased.
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