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Highly supercooled liquids with soft-core potentials are studied via molecular dynamics simulations in two and three dimensions in quiescent and sheared conditions.We may define bonds between neighboring particle pairs unambiguously owing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ryoichi Yamamoto , Akira Onuki

This paper is the fourth in a series devoted to identifying and explaining the properties of strongly correlating liquids, i.e., liquids where virial and potential energy correlate better than 90% in their thermal equilibrium fluctuations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-01-29 Nicoletta Gnan , Thomas B. Schrøder , Ulf R. Pedersen , Nicholas P. Bailey , Jeppe C. Dyre

Using molecular dynamic simulations we study a waterlike model confined between two fixed hydrophobic plates. The system is tested for density, diffusion and structural anomalous behavior and compared with the bulk results. Within the range…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 Leandro Batirolla Krott , Marcia Cristina Bernardes Barbosa

The first paper of this series [J. Chem. Phys. 158, 034103 (2023)] demonstrated that excess entropy scaling holds for both fine-grained and corresponding coarse-grained (CG) systems. Despite its universality, a more exact determination of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Jaehyeok Jin , Kenneth S. Schweizer , Gregory A. Voth

The properties of liquid water are known to change drastically in confined geometries. A most interesting and intriguing phenomenon is that the diffusion of water is found to be strongly enhanced by the proximity of a hydrophobic confining…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-06 Lorenzo Agosta , Kersti Hermansson , Mikhail Dzugutov

Over times shorter than that required for relaxation of enthalpy, a liquid can exhibit striking heterogeneities. The picture of these heterogeneities is complex with transient patches of rigidity, irregular yet persistent, intersected by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-09-30 Peter Harrowell

Over the last decade, an increasing body of evidence has emerged, supporting the existence of a metastable liquid-liquid critical point in supercooled water, whereby two distinct liquid phases of different densities coexist. Analysing long…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-20 Cesare Malosso , Natalia Manko , Maria Grazia Izzo , Stefano Baroni , Ali Hassanali

Water's unique anomalies are vital in various applications and biological processes, yet the molecular mechanisms behind these anomalies remain debated, particularly in the metastable liquid phase under supercooling and stretching…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-17 Luis Enrique Coronas , Giancarlo Franzese

We study a highly supercooled two-dimensional fluid mixture via molecular dynamics simulation. We follow bond breakage events among particle pairs, which occur on the scale of the $\alpha$ relaxation time $\tau_{\alpha}$. Large scale…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Ryoichi Yamamoto , Akira Onuki

In this paper we investigate the dynamic properties of the minimal Bell-Lavis (BL) water model and their relation to the thermodynamic anomalies. The Bell-Lavis model is defined on a triangular lattice in which water molecules are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Marcia M. Szortyka , Carlos E. Fiore , Vera B. Henriques , Marcia C. Barbosa

We performed extensive molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, supplemented by Mode Coupling Theory (MCT) calculations, for the Square Shoulder (SS) model, a purely repulsive potential where the hard-core is complemented by a finite shoulder.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-15 Gayatri Das , Nicoletta Gnan , Francesco Sciortino , Emanuela Zaccarelli

A two dimensional lattice gas model with ''core-softened'' potential is investigated. Two liquid phases and density anomaly are found. The demixing phase transition between the two liquid phases end at a tricritical point that is also the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Aline Lopes Balladares , Marcia C. Barbosa

Using molecular dynamics simulations we investigate the relaxation dynamics of a supercooled liquid close to a rough as well as close to a smooth wall. For the former situation the relaxation times increase strongly with decreasing distance…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter Scheidler , Walter Kob , Kurt Binder

Employing simplified models in computer simulation is on the one hand often enforced by computer time limitations but on the other hand it offers insights into the molecular properties determining a given physical phenomenon. We employ this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-04-18 Bortolo Matteo Mognetti , Martin Oettel , Leonid Yelash , Peter Virnau , Wolfgang Paul , Kurt Binder

We use molecular dynamics computer simulations and nuclear magnetic resonance experiments to investigate the dynamics of water at interfaces of molecular roughness and low mobility. We find that, when approaching such interfaces, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-07-22 Markus Rosenstihl , Kerstin Kämpf , Felix Klameth , Matthias Sattig , Michael Vogel

We present a simple model for an associating liquid in which polymorphism and density anomaly are connected. Our model combines a two dimensional lattice gas with particles interacting through a soft core potential and orientational degrees…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vera B. Henriques , Marcia C Barbosa

We present a comparative computer simulation study of the phase diagrams and anomalous behavior of two-dimensional ($2D$) and quasi-two-dimensional ($q2D$) classical particles interacting with each other through isotropic core-softened…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-14 Yu. D. Fomin , E. N. Tsiok , V. N. Ryzhov

Building on mode-coupling-theory calculations, we report a novel scenario for multiple glass transitions in a purely repulsive spherical potential: the square-shoulder. The liquid-glass transition lines exhibit both melting by cooling and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-04 Matthias Sperl , Emanuela Zaccarelli , Francesco Sciortino , Pradeep Kumar , H. Eugene Stanley

The behavior of a confined spherical symmetric anomalous fluid under high external pressure was studied with Molecular Dynamics simulations. The fluid is modeled by a ore-softened potential with two characteristic length scales, which in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-08-21 José Rafael Bordin , Leandro B. Krott , Marcia C. B. Barbosa

Curved fluid interfaces are investigated on the nanometre length scale by molecular dynamics simulation. Thereby, droplets surrounded by a metastable vapour phase are stabilized in the canonical ensemble. Analogous simulations are conducted…