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Finite-Size Effects in a Supercooled Liquid

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-07 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We study the influence of the system size on various static and dynamic properties of a supercooled binary Lennard-Jones liquid via computer simulations. In this way, we demonstrate that the treatment of systems as small as N=65 particles yields relevant results for the understanding of bulk properties. Especially, we find that a system of N=130 particles behaves basically as two non-interacting systems of half the size.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0210121,
  title  = {Finite-Size Effects in a Supercooled Liquid},
  author = {Burkhard Doliwa and Andreas Heuer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0210121},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Proceedings of the III Workshop on Non Equilibrium Phenomena in Supercooled Fluids, Glasses and Amorphous Materials, Sep 2002, Pisa