Slow dynamics of salol: a pressure- and temperature-dependent light scattering study

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2004 Jul;70(1 Pt 1):011504. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.011504. Epub 2004 Jul 28.

Abstract

We study the slow dynamics of salol by varying both temperature and pressure using photon correlation spectroscopy and pressure-volume-temperature measurements, and compare the behavior of the structural relaxation time with equations derived within the Adam-Gibbs entropy theory and the Cohen-Grest free volume theory. We find that pressure-dependent data are crucial to assess the validity of these model equations. Our analysis supports the entropy-based equation, and estimates the configurational entropy of salol at ambient pressure approximately 70% of the excess entropy. Finally, we investigate the evolution of the shape of the structural relaxation process, and find that a time-temperature-pressure superposition principle holds over the range investigated.