Entropy, diffusivity and the energy landscape of a water-like fluid
Abstract
Molecular dynamics simulations and instantaneous normal mode (INM) analysis of a fluid with core-softened pair interactions and water-like liquid-state anomalies are performed to obtain an understanding of the relationship between thermodynamics, transport properties and the poten- tial energy landscape. Rosenfeld-scaling of diffusivities with the thermodynamic excess and pair correlation entropy is demonstrated for this model. The INM spectra are shown to carry infor- mation about the dynamical consequences of the interplay between length scales characteristic of anomalous fluids, such as bimodality of the real and imaginary branches of the frequency distribu- tion. The INM spectral information is used to partition the liquid entropy into two contributions associated with the real and imaginary frequency modes; only the entropy contribution from the imaginary branch captures the non-monotonic behaviour of the excess entropy and diffusivity in the anomalous regime of the fluid.
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@article{arxiv.1002.3781,
title = {Entropy, diffusivity and the energy landscape of a water-like fluid},
author = {Alan Barros de Oliveira and Evy A. Salcedo Torres and Charusita Chakravarty and Marcia C. Barbosa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.3781},
year = {2015}
}