Dimensionality reduction of local structure in glassy binary mixtures

Abstract

We consider unsupervised learning methods for characterizing the disordered microscopic structure of supercooled liquids and glasses. Specifically, we perform dimensionality reduction of smooth structural descriptors that describe radial and bond-orientational correlations, and assess the ability of the method to grasp the essential structural features of glassy binary mixtures. In several cases, a few collective variables account for the bulk of the structural fluctuations within the first coordination shell and also display a clear connection with the fluctuations of particle mobility. Fine-grained descriptors that characterize the radial dependence of bond-orientational order better capture the structural fluctuations relevant for particle mobility, but are also more difficult to parametrize and to interpret. We also find that principal component analysis of bond-orientational order parameters provides identical results to neural network autoencoders, while having the advantage of being easily interpretable. Overall, our results indicate that glassy binary mixtures have a broad spectrum of structural features. In the temperature range we investigate, some mixtures display well-defined locally favored structures, which are reflected in bimodal distributions of the structural variables identified by dimensionality reduction.

arXiv comment22 pages, 16 figures. Data and workflow to reproduce the findings of this work are available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7108316

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