Properties of the energy landscape of network models for covalent glasses

Details Properties of the energy landscape of network models for covalent glasses Properties of the energy landscape of network models for covalent glasses

1998-05-29

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9805396v1

J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 31(1998) 8165-8178

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

RevTeX, 19 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/31/40/011

We investigate the energy landscape of two dimensional network models for covalent glasses by means of the lid algorithm. For three different particle densities and for a range of network sizes, we exhaustively analyse many configuration space regions enclosing deep-lying energy minima. We extract the local densities of states and of minima, and the number of states and minima accessible below a certain energy barrier, the 'lid'. These quantities show on average a close to exponential growth as a function of their respective arguments. We calculate the configurational entropy for these pockets of states and find that the excess specific heat exhibits a peak at a critical temperature associated with the exponential growth in the local density of states, a feature of the specific heat also observed in real glasses at the glass transition.

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