Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol.103, No.38, 8128-8131, 1999
Revised Ehrenfest relations for the glass transition
The derivation of the Ehrenfest relations for a second-order phase transition is generalized to include the case of glass transitions, where the lower temperature phase is out of equilibrium. The revised relations are shown to predict the variation of the glass transition pressure, measured in a computer simulation study, over a wide range of temperature. They reduce to the original Ehrenfest relations when the lower temperature phase is equilibrated.