Diffusivity, excess entropy, and the potential-energy landscape of monatomic liquids |
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Authors: | Chakraborty Somendra Nath Chakravarty Charusita |
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Affiliation: | Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, New Delhi 110016, India. |
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Abstract: | The connection between thermodynamic, transport, and potential-energy landscape features is studied for liquids with Lennard-Jones-type pair interactions using both microcanonical molecular-dynamics and isothermal-isobaric ensemble Monte Carlo simulations. Instantaneous normal-mode and saddle-point analyses of two variants of the monatomic Lennard-Jones liquid have been performed. The diffusivity is shown to depend linearly on several key properties of instantaneous and saddle configurations-the energy, the fraction of negative curvature directions, and the mean, maximum, and minimum eigenvalues of the Hessian. Since the Dzugutov scaling relationship also holds for such systems [Nature (London) 381, 137 (1996)], the exponential of the excess entropy, within the two-particle approximation, displays the same linear dependence on energy landscape properties as the diffusivity. |
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