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Absence of a structural glass phase in a monatomic model liquid predicted to undergo an ideal glass transition

Charlotte Gils, Helmut G Katzgraber and Matthias Troyer

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We study numerically a two-dimensional monodisperse model of interacting classical particles predicted to exhibit a static liquid–glass transition. Using a dynamical Monte Carlo method we show that the model does not freeze into a glassy phase at low temperatures. Instead, depending on the choice of the hard-core radius for the particles, the system either collapses trivially or a polycrystalline hexagonal structure emerges.


Keywords

structural glasses (theory)

classical monte carlo simulations

PACS

64.70.P- Glass transitions of specific systems

64.70.D- Solid–liquid transitions

MSC

82C26 Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general)

82C80 Numerical methods (Monte Carlo, series resummation, etc.)

Subjects

Condensed matter: structural, mechanical & thermal

Dates

Issue 09 (September 2007)

Received 25 July 2007, accepted for publication 20 August 2007

Published 14 September 2007



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