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As a common but critical dynamic crossover in glass-forming liquids (GFLs), the discovery of fragile-to-strong (F-S) transition promises a novel route for understanding supercooled liquid and glass transition. The present work, for the first time, successfully realizes the quantitative prediction of the F-S transition in nine metallic glass-forming liquids, by a counter-intuitive approach that focuses on local atomic activation events, rather than relaxation, upon cooling. The dynamic crossover originates from a disorder-to-order transition by self-regulating behavior of atomic position within a cage controlled by finite atomic activation events, due to the appearance of local cooperative motion of nearest neighborhood atoms. Moreover, the dominant role of entropy in this anomaly has been discovered, and the correspondence between the crossover of configuration entropy involved in activation events and the occurrence of F-S transition has been found. Our work implies that the feature of atomic energy fluctuations reflected by atomic activation events has a close linkage to complex dynamic behaviors of disordered systems.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51901139, U1902221, 51971120, and 51971093), the Taishan Scholars Program of Shandong Province (Grant No. tsqn201909010), and the Key Basic and Applied Research Program of Guangdong Province (Grant No. 2019B030302010).
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Chu, W., Wang, Z., Ren, N. et al. Entropy-driven atomic activation in supercooled liquids and its link to the fragile-to-strong transition. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 66, 246112 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-022-2061-2
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