M3 Structural Relaxation and Fictitious Temperature

Title

By crossing Tg during cooling, the structure becomes frozen out of equilibrium, characterized by a slowly relaxing fictitious temperature T_f (Tool-Narayanaswamy-Moynihan model) with no analogue in a crystalline solid.

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