Energy Landscape and Overlap Distribution of Binary Lennard-Jones Glasses
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We study the distribution of overlaps of glassy minima, taking proper care of residual symmetries of the system. Ensembles of locally stable, low lying glassy states are efficiently generated by rapid cooling from the liquid phase which has been equilibrated at a temperature . Varying , we observe a transition from a regime where a broad range of states are sampled to a regime where the system is almost always trapped in a metastable glassy state. We do not observe any structure in the distribution of overlaps of glassy minima, but find only very weak correlations, comparable in size to those of two liquid configurations.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9903120,
title = {Energy Landscape and Overlap Distribution of Binary Lennard-Jones Glasses},
author = {K. K. Bhattacharya and K. Broderix and R. Kree and A. Zippelius},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9903120},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, 5 figures, uses europhys-style. Minor notational changes, typos corrected