Energy landscape of a simple model for strong liquids
Statistical Mechanics
2016-08-31 v2 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We calculate the statistical properties of the energy landscape of a minimal model for strong network-forming liquids. Dynamics and thermodynamic properties of this model can be computed with arbitrary precision even at low temperatures. A degenerate disordered ground state and logarithmic statistics for the energy distribution are the landscape signatures of strong liquid behavior. Differences from fragile liquid properties are attributed to the presence of a discrete energy scale, provided by the particle bonds, and to the intrinsic degeneracy of topologically disordered networks.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0407801,
title = {Energy landscape of a simple model for strong liquids},
author = {A. J. Moreno and S. V. Buldyrev and E. La Nave and I. Saika-Voivod and F. Sciortino and P. Tartaglia and E. Zaccarelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0407801},
year = {2016}
}
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