Absence of structural glass transition in a monoatomic model liquid predicted to undergo an ideal glass transition

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Abstract

We study numerically a monodisperse model of interacting classical particles predicted to exhibit a static liquid-glass transition. Using a dynamical Monte Carlo method we show that the model does not freeze into a glassy phase at low temperatures. Instead, depending on the choice of the hard-core radius for the particles, the system either collapses trivially or a polycrystalline hexagonal structure emerges.

Authors

  • Matthias Troyer

    • ETH Zurich
    • Theoretische Physik, ETH Zurich
    • ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
  • Charlotte Gils

    • ETH Zurich
  • Helmut G. Katzgraber

    • ETH Zurich
    • Theoretische Physik, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland