Dynamical Heterogeneities in a Supercooled Lennard-Jones Liquid
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Walter Kob,1 Claudio Donati,2 Steven J. Plimpton,3 Peter H. Poole,4 and Sharon C. Glotzer2 1Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany 2Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science, and Polymers Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899 3Parallel Computational Sciences Department, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1111 4Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7 (Received 6 June 1997)
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