Thermodynamics of binary mixture glasses
Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v2
Abstract
We compute the thermodynamic properties of the glass phase in a binary mixture of soft spheres. Our approach is a generalization to mixtures of the replica strategy, recently proposed by Mezard and Parisi, providing a first principle statistical mechanics computation of the thermodynamics of glasses. The method starts from the inter-atomic potentials, and translates the problem into the study of a molecular liquid. We compare uor analytical predictions to numerical simulations, focusing onto the values of the thermodynamic transition and the configurational entropy.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9903129,
title = {Thermodynamics of binary mixture glasses},
author = {Barbara Coluzzi and Marc Mezard and Giorgio Parisi and Paolo Verrocchio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9903129},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
28 pages, 8 figures, revised version, accepted for the publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics