Effective Potential in Glass Forming Liquids
Antonio de Candia
TL;DR
This paper applies the effective potential formalism to glass forming liquids, revealing phase coexistence and enabling computation of metastable states' free energy and complexity.
Contribution
It introduces a novel application of the effective potential formalism to analyze phase coexistence and metastability in glass forming liquids.
Findings
Identification of phase coexistence via linear potential region
Calculation of free energy of metastable states
Estimation of configurational complexity
Abstract
The effective potential formalism is applied to glass forming liquids, choosing a coupling potential such that the "order parameter", conjugated to the coupling strength, is the mean square displacement of the particles from their position in the quenched reference configuration. The potential is linear in some interval of its argument, signaling the coexistence of two phases in the system, one with low and one with high mean square displacement. Within this formalism, one can also compute the free energy of metastable states and their complexity.
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