Detecting hidden spatial and spatio-temporal structures in glasses and complex physical systems by multiresolution network clustering

Details Detecting hidden spatial and spatio-temporal structures in glasses and complex physical systems by multiresolution network clustering Detecting hidden spatial and spatio-temporal structures in glasses and complex physical systems by multiresolution network clustering

2011-02-08

arxiv.org/abs/1102.1519v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

(29 pages, 44 figures)

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We elaborate on a general method that we recently introduced for characterizing the "natural" structures in complex physical systems via a multiscale network based approach for the data mining of such structures. The approach is based on "community detection" wherein interacting particles are partitioned into "an ideal gas" of optimally decoupled groups of particles. Specifically, we construct a set of network representations ("replicas") of the physical system based on interatomic potentials and apply a multiscale clustering ("multiresolution community detection") analysis using information-based correlations among the replicas. Replicas may be (i) different representations of an identical static system or (ii) embody dynamics by when considering replicas to be time separated snapshots of the system (with a tunable time separation) or (iii) encode general correlations when different replicas correspond to different representations of the entire history of the system as it evolves in space-time. We apply our method to computer simulations of a binary Kob-Andersen Lennard-Jones system, a ternary model system, and to atomic coordinates in a ZrPt system as gleaned by reverse Monte Carlo analysis of experimentally determined structure factors. We identify the dominant structures (disjoint or overlapping) and general length scales by analyzing extrema of the information theory measures. We speculate on possible links between (i) physical transitions or crossovers and (ii) changes in structures found by this method as well as phase transitions associated with the computational complexity of the community detection problem. We briefly also consider continuum approaches and discuss the shear penetration depth in elastic media; this length scale increases as the system becomes increasingly rigid.

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