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Effects of random pinning on the potential energy landscape of a supercooled liquid.


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Authors

Niblett, SP 
de Souza, VK 
Jack, RL 
Wales, DJ 

Abstract

We use energy landscape methods to investigate the response of a supercooled liquid to random pinning. We classify the structural similarity of different energy minima using a measure of overlap. This analysis reveals a correspondence between distinct particle packings (which are characterised via the overlap) and funnels on the energy landscape (which are characterised via disconnectivity graphs). As the number of pinned particles is increased, we find a crossover from glassy behavior at low pinning to a structure-seeking landscape at high pinning, in which all thermally accessible minima are structurally similar. We discuss the consequences of these results for theories of randomly pinned liquids. We also investigate how the energy landscape depends on the fraction of pinned particles, including the degree of frustration and the evolution of distinct packings as the number of pinned particles is reduced.

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Keywords

cond-mat.stat-mech, cond-mat.stat-mech

Journal Title

J Chem Phys

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Journal ISSN

0021-9606
1089-7690

Volume Title

149

Publisher

AIP Publishing
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/N035003/1)
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