Thermodynamics and its correlation with dynamics in a mean-field model and pinned systems: A comparative study using two different methods of entropy calculation

Abstract

Recently, some of us developed a novel model glass-forming liquid with k extra interactions with pseudo neighbours to each liquid particle over and above the regular interactions with its neighbours. Analysis of the structure and dynamics of these systems showed that with an increase in k the systems have more mean-field like properties. This work presents an extensive study of the thermodynamics of the above-mentioned model for several values of k and its correlation with the dynamics. We surprisingly find that the usual thermodynamic integration (TI) method of calculating the entropy provides unphysical results for this model. It predicts the vanishing of configurational entropy at state points at which both the collective and the single-particle dynamics of the system show complete relaxation. We then employ a new method known as the two-phase thermodynamics (2PT) method to calculate the entropy. We find that with an increase in k the difference in the entropy computed using the two methods (2PT and TI) increases. We also find that in the temperature range studied, the entropy calculated via the 2PT method satisfies the Adam-Gibbs (AG) relationship between the relaxation time and the configurational entropy, whereas the entropy calculated via the TI method shows a strong violation of the same. We then apply the 2PT method to calculate the entropy in another system where some fractions of particles are pinned randomly in their equilibrium positions. This system also shows a similar breakdown of the AG relationship as reported earlier. We show that the difference in entropy calculated via the 2PT and TI methods increases with an increase in pinning density. We also find that when the entropy is calculated using the 2PT method, the AG relationship between the dynamics and the entropy holds.

16 pages, 27 figures, 3 tables

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