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Fast generation of ultrastable computer glasses by minimization of an augmented potential energy

Kapteijns, Geert
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Ji, Wencheng  
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Brito, Carolina
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January 4, 2019
Physical Review E

We present a model and protocol that enable the generation of extremely stable computer glasses at minimal computational cost. The protocol consists of an instantaneous quench in an augmented potential energy landscape, with particle radii as additional degrees of freedom. We demonstrate how our glasses' mechanical stability, which is readily tunable in our approach, is reflected in both microscopic and macroscopic observables. Our observations indicate that the stability of our computer glasses is at least comparable to that of computer glasses generated by the celebrated Swap Monte Carlo algorithm Strikingly, some key properties support even qualitatively enhanced stability in our scheme: the density of quasilocalized excitations displays a gap in our most stable computer glasses, whose magnitude scales with the polydispersity of the particles. We explain this observation, which is consistent with the lack of plasticity we observe at small stress. It also suggests that these glasses are depleted from two-level systems, similarly to experimental vapor-deposited ultrastable glasses.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevE.99.012106
Web of Science ID

WOS:000455062400002

Author(s)
Kapteijns, Geert
Ji, Wencheng  
Brito, Carolina
Wyart, Matthieu  
Lerner, Edan
Date Issued

2019-01-04

Publisher

AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Published in
Physical Review E
Volume

99

Issue

1

Article Number

012106

Subjects

Physics, Fluids & Plasmas

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Physics, Mathematical

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Physics

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thermodynamics

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dynamics

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fluids

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REVIEWED

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