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By considering Voronoi tessellations of the configurations of a fluid, we propose two new conserved fields, which provide structural information not fully accounted for by the usual 2-point density correlation functions. One of these fields is scalar and associated with the volume of the Voronoi cell, whereas the other one, termed the “geometric polarisation”, is vectorial and related to the local anisotropy of the configurations. We study the static and dynamical properties of these fields in the supercooled regime of a model glass-forming liquid. We show that the geometric polarisation is statically correlated to the force field, but contrary to it develops a plateau regime when the temperature is lowered. This different relaxation is related to the cage effect in glass-forming liquids, which prevents a complete relaxation of the shape of the cage around particle on intermediate time scales.
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Farago, J., Semenov, A., Frey, S. et al. New conserved structural fields for supercooled liquids. Eur. Phys. J. E 37, 46 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2014-14046-9
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