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The slow dynamics of microscopic density correlations in supercooled glycerol was studied by time-domain interferometry using 57Fe-nuclear resonant scattering gamma rays of synchrotron radiation. The dependence of the relaxation time at 250 K on the momentum transfer q is maximum near the first peak of the static structure factor S(q) at q ∼ 15 nm −1. The q-dependent behavior of the relaxation time known as de Gennes narrowing was confirmed in glycerol. Conversely, de Gennes narrowing around the second and third peaks of S(q) at q ∼ 26 nm −1 and 54 nm −1 was not detected. The q dependence of the relaxation time was found to follow a power-law equation with power-law index of 1.9(2) in the q region well above the first peak of S(q) up to ∼ 60 nm −1, which corresponds to angstrom scale, within experimental error. This suggests that in the angstrom-scale dynamics of supercooled glycerol, independent motions dominate over collective motion.
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This article is part of the Topical Collection on Proceedings of the International Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ICAME 2015), Hamburg, Germany, 13-18 September 2015
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Saito, M., Kobayashi, Y., Masuda, R. et al. Slow dynamics in glycerol: collective de gennes narrowing and independent angstrom motion. Hyperfine Interact 237, 22 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-016-1243-3
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