Thermodynamics of binary mixture glasses
arXiv:cond-mat/9903129 · doi:10.1063/1.480246
Abstract
We compute the thermodynamic properties of the glass phase in a binary mixture of soft spheres. Our approach is a generalization to mixtures of the replica strategy, recently proposed by Mezard and Parisi, providing a first principle statistical mechanics computation of the thermodynamics of glasses. The method starts from the inter-atomic potentials, and translates the problem into the study of a molecular liquid. We compare uor analytical predictions to numerical simulations, focusing onto the values of the thermodynamic transition and the configurational entropy.
28 pages, 8 figures, revised version, accepted for the publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics