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The thermodynamical liquid-glass transition in a Lennard-Jones binary mixture

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-10-31 v4 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We use the results derived in the framework of the replica approach to study the liquid-glass thermodynamic transition. The main results are rederived without using replicas and applied to the study of the Lennard-Jones binary mixture introduced by Kob and Andersen. We find that there is a phase transition due to the entropy crisis. We compute both analytically and numerically the value of the phase transition point TKT_{K} and the specific heat in the low temperature phase.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9906172,
  title  = {The thermodynamical liquid-glass transition in a Lennard-Jones binary mixture},
  author = {Barbara Coluzzi and Giorgio Parisi and Paolo Verrocchio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9906172},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures, a minor mistake corrected and the main argument simplified. Numerical precision improved. Accepted for pubblication on Phys. Rev. Lett