Structural Probe of a Glass Forming Liquid: Generalized Compressibility

Details Structural Probe of a Glass Forming Liquid: Generalized Compressibility Structural Probe of a Glass Forming Liquid: Generalized Compressibility

2001-12-15

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0112290v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

18 pages, Latex, 26 encapsulated postscript figures, revised paper is shorter, to appear in Phys. Rev. E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.66.021204

We introduce a new quantity to probe the glass transition. This quantity is a linear generalized compressibility which depends solely on the positions of the particles. We have performed a molecular dynamics simulation on a glass forming liquid consisting of a two component mixture of soft spheres in three dimensions. As the temperature is lowered (or as the density is increased), the generalized compressibility drops sharply at the glass transition, with the drop becoming more and more abrupt as the measurement time increases. At our longest measurement times, the drop occurs approximately at the mode coupling temperature $T_C$. The drop in the linear generalized compressibility occurs at the same temperature as the peak in the specific heat. By examining the inherent structure energy as a function of temperature, we find that our results are consistent with the kinetic view of the glass transition in which the system falls out of equilibrium. We find no size dependence and no evidence for a second order phase transition though this does not exclude the possibility of a phase transition below the observed glass transition temperature. We discuss the relation between the linear generalized compressibility and the ordinary isothermal compressibility as well as the static structure factor.

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