Fragility and glassy dynamics of 2Ca(NO3)2·3KNO3 under pressure: Molecular dynamics simulations.

Molecular dynamics simulations of the glass-forming liquid 2Ca(NO3)2·3KNO3 (CKN) were performed from high temperature liquid states down to low temperature glassy states at six different pressures from 10-4 to 5.0 GPa. The temperature dependence of the structural relaxation time indicates that the fragility of liquid CKN changes with pressure. In line with recent proposal [Scopigno et al., Science 302, 849 (2003)], the change on liquid fragility is followed by a proportional change of the nonergodicity factor of the corresponding glass at low temperature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]