Numerical simulations of liquids with amorphous boundary conditions

Abstract

It has recently become clear that simulations under amorphpous boundary conditions (ABCs) can provide valuable information on the dynamics and thermodynamics of disordered systems with no obvious ordered parameter. In particular, they allow to detect a correlation length that is not measurable with standard correlation functions. Here we explain what exactly is meant by ABCs, discuss their relation with point-to-set correlations and briefly describe some recent results obtained with this technique.

Presented at STATPHYS 24

References in corpus (6)

• Dynamics on the Way to Forming Glass: Bubbles in Space-time
• Rigorous Inequalities between Length and Time Scales in Glassy Systems
• Mosaic multi-state scenario vs. one-state description of supercooled liquids
• Caging and mosaic lengthscales in plaquette spin models of glasses
• Surface tension fluctuations and a new spinodal point in glass-forming liquids
• Surface Tension in Kac Glass Models

Cited by in corpus (6)

• On the Strength of Glasses
• Mode-coupling theory predictions for the dynamical transitions of the partly pinned fluid systems
• Correlation functions as a tool to study collective behaviour phenomena in biological systems
• Microscopic theory of the glassy dynamics of passive and active network materials
• Simple physics of the partly pinned fluid systems
• Specific heat anomaly in a supercooled liquid with amorphous boundary conditions