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Equilibrium phase diagram of a randomly pinned glass-former

Soft Condensed Matter 2018-02-28 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We use computer simulations to study the thermodynamic properties of a glass former in which a fraction cc of the particles has been permanently frozen. By thermodynamic integration, we determine the Kauzmann, or ideal glass transition, temperature TK(c)T_K(c) at which the configurational entropy vanishes. This is done without resorting to any kind of extrapolation, {\it i.e.}, TK(c)T_K(c) is indeed an equilibrium property of the system. We also measure the distribution function of the overlap, {\it i.e.}, the order parameter that signals the glass state. We find that the transition line obtained from the overlap coincides with that obtained from the thermodynamic integration, thus showing that the two approaches give the same transition line. Finally we determine the geometrical properties of the potential energy landscape, notably the TT-and cc-dependence of the saddle index and use these properties to obtain the dynamic transition temperature Td(c)T_d(c). The two temperatures TK(c)T_K(c) and Td(c)T_d(c) cross at a finite value of cc and indicate the point at which the glass transition line ends. These findings are qualitatively consistent with the scenario proposed by the random first order transition theory.

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@article{arxiv.1412.4911,
  title  = {Equilibrium phase diagram of a randomly pinned glass-former},
  author = {Misaki Ozawa and Walter Kob and Atsushi Ikeda and Kunimasa Miyazaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.4911},
  year   = {2018}
}

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14 pages, 11 figures, published version