A Reply to the Comment by A. Rivera et al.

in Physical Review Letters (2005), 94

Thermal Glass Transition Beyond the Vogel-Fulcher-Tammann Behavior for Glass Forming Diglycidylether of Bisphenol A

in Physical Review Letters (2002), 89

For the low molecular weight fragile liquid diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A we report, based on Brillouin and dielectric spectroscopy, on a thermal glass transition where the relaxation time of the α ... [more ▼]

For the low molecular weight fragile liquid diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A we report, based on Brillouin and dielectric spectroscopy, on a thermal glass transition where the relaxation time of the α process does not go to infinity. Instead, the structural α relaxation disappears spontaneously at the transition point. That discontinuity in relaxation time coincides with a kink in the longitudinal hypersonic velocity and determines unambiguously the transition from the liquid to the glassy state. [less ▲]