Inherent Structure Entropy of Supercooled Liquids

Details Inherent Structure Entropy of Supercooled Liquids Inherent Structure Entropy of Supercooled Liquids

1999-06-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9906081v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3214 (1999)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

11 pages of Latex, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3214

We present a quantitative description of the thermodynamics in a supercooled binary Lennard Jones liquid via the evaluation of the degeneracy of the inherent structures, i.e. of the number of potential energy basins in configuration space. We find that for supercooled states, the contribution of the inherent structures to the free energy of the liquid almost completely decouples from the vibrational contribution. An important byproduct of the presented analysis is the determination of the Kauzmann temperature for the studied system. The resulting quantitative picture of the thermodynamics of the inherent structures offers new suggestions for the description of equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium slow-dynamics in liquids below the Mode-Coupling temperature.

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