Effective Potential in Glass Forming Liquids
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2007-05-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
The effective potential formalism is applied to glass forming liquids, choosing a coupling potential such that the "order parameter", conjugated to the coupling strength, is the mean square displacement of the particles from their position in the quenched reference configuration. The potential is linear in some interval of its argument, signaling the coexistence of two phases in the system, one with low and one with high mean square displacement. Within this formalism, one can also compute the free energy of metastable states and their complexity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0402552,
title = {Effective Potential in Glass Forming Liquids},
author = {Antonio de Candia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0402552},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 eps figures