Preparation and relaxation of very stable glassy states of a simulated liquid

Details Preparation and relaxation of very stable glassy states of a simulated liquid Preparation and relaxation of very stable glassy states of a simulated liquid

2011-09-13

arxiv.org/abs/1109.2715v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 275702 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Minor revisions in light of referee comments. 5 pages, 4 figs

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.275702

We prepare metastable glassy states in a model glass-former made of Lennard-Jones particles by sampling biased ensembles of trajectories with low dynamical activity. These trajectories form an inactive dynamical phase whose `fast' vibrational degrees of freedom are maintained at thermal equilibrium by contact with a heat bath, while the `slow' structural degrees of freedom are located in deep valleys of the energy landscape. We examine the relaxation to equilibrium and the vibrational properties of these metastable states. The glassy states we prepare by our trajectory sampling method are very stable to thermal fluctuations and also more mechanically rigid than low-temperature equilibrated configurations.

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