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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 111, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.173003
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Neutron scattering and extensive molecular dynamics simulations of an all atom C100H202 system were performed to address the short-time dynamics leading to center-of-mass self-diffusion. The simulated dynamics are in excellent agreement with resolution resolved time-of-flight quasielastic neutron scattering. The anomalous subdiffusive center-of-mass motion could be modeled by explicitly accounting for viscoelastic hydrodynamic interactions. A model-free analysis of the local reorientations of the molecular backbone revealed three relaxation processes: While two relaxations characterize local bond rotation and global molecular reorientation, the third component on intermediate times could be attributed to transient flowlike motions of atoms on different molecules. The existence of these collective motions, which are clearly visualized in this Letter, strongly contribute to the chain relaxations in molecular liquids.
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