Construction of the free energy landscape by the density functional theory
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
On the basis of the density functional theory, we give a clear definition of the free energy landscape. To show the usefulness of the definition, we construct the free energy landscape for rearrangement of atoms in an FCC crystal of hard spheres. In this description, the cooperatively rearranging region (CRR) is clealy related to the hard spheres involved in the saddle between two adjacent basins. A new concept of the simultaneously rearranging region (SRR) emerges naturally as spheres defined by the difference between two adjacent basins. We show that the SRR and the CRR can be determined explicitly from the free energylandscape.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0508499,
title = {Construction of the free energy landscape by the density functional theory},
author = {Takashi Yoshidome and Akira Yoshimori and Takashi Odagaki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0508499},
year = {2009}
}
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11 pages, 3 figures, submitted to J. Chem. Phys