Influence of the Potential Energy Landscape on the Equilibration and Specific Heat of Glass Forming Liquids

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We show that a glass transition, signaled by a peak in the specific heat vs. temperature, can occur because a glassy system that shows no signs of aging progresses so slowly through the energy landscape that the time needed to obtain an accurate estimate of the thermodynamic averages exceeds the observation time. We find that below the glass transition temperature of a three dimensional binary mixture of soft spheres, the specific heat increases with measurement time spans orders of magnitude longer than previously recognized equilibration times.
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Disordered Systems and Neural Networks, Statistical Mechanics

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/19924

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https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0209221
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