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JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT
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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2016/08/084002
Keywords
glasses (structural); energy landscapes; structural correlations
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- Australian Research Council
- 'Initiative Doctorale Interdisciplinaire' from IDEX Paris-Saclay
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We connect the configurational entropy of a liquid to the geometrical properties of its local energy landscape, using a high-temperature expansion. It is proposed that correlations between local structures arises from their overlap and, being geometrical in nature, can be usefully determined using the inherent structures of high temperature liquids. We show quantitatively how the high-temperature covariance of these local structural fluctuations arising from their geometrical overlap, combined with their energetic stability, control the decrease of entropy with decreasing energy. We apply this formalism to a family of favoured local structure (FLS) lattice models with two low symmetry FLS's which are found to either crystallize or form a glass on cooling. The covariance, crystal energy and estimated freezing temperature are tested as possible predictors of glass-forming ability in the model system.
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