The thermodynamical liquid-glass transition in a Lennard-Jones binary mixture

Abstract

We use the results derived in the framework of the replica approach to study the liquid-glass thermodynamic transition. The main results are rederived without using replicas and applied to the study of the Lennard-Jones binary mixture introduced by Kob and Andersen. We find that there is a phase transition due to the entropy crisis. We compute both analytically and numerically the value of the phase transition point $T_K$ and the specific heat in the low temperature phase.

5 pages, 3 figures, a minor mistake corrected and the main argument simplified. Numerical precision improved. Accepted for pubblication on Phys. Rev. Lett

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