Saddles and softness in simple model liquids
arXiv:cond-mat/0409642 · doi:10.1063/1.1801011
Abstract
We report a numerical study of saddles properties of the potential energy landscape for soft spheres with different softness, i.e. different power n of the interparticle repulsive potential. We find that saddle-based quantities rescale into master curves once energies and temperatures are scaled by mode-coupling temperature T_MCT, confirming and generalizing previous findings obtained for Lennard-Jones like models.
2 pages, 2 figures