TY - JOUR
T1 - Potential tuning in the S W system. (i) Bringing Tc,2 to ambient pressure, and (II) colliding Tc,2 with the liquid vapor spinodal
AU - Angell, Charles
AU - Kapko, Vitaliy
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the NSF under collaborative grant CHE12-13265.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA Medialab srl.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Following Vasisht et al s identification of the second critical point (Tc2, Pc2) for liquid silicon in the Stillinger Weber (S W) model for silicon, we study the variation of Tc2, Pc2 with tetrahedral repulsion parameter in an extension of the earlier potential tuning study of this system. We use the simple isochore crossing approach to identify the location of the second critical point (before any crystallization can occur) as a function of the tuning or tetrahedrality , parameter λ, and identify two phenomena of high interest content. The first is that the second critical point pressure Pc2, becomes less negative as λ decreases from the silicon value (meaning the drive to high tetrahedrality is decreased) and reaches zero pressure at the same value of lambda found to mark the onset of glassforming ability in an earlier study of this tunable system. The second is that, as the Tc,2 approaches the temperature of the liquid gas spinodal, λ > 22, the behavior of the temperature of maximum density (TMD) switches from the behavior seen in most current water pair potential models (locus of TMDs has a maximum), to the behavior seen in empirical engineering multiparameter equations of state (EoS) (and also by two parameter Speedy isothermal expansion EoS) for water, according to which the locus of TMDs of HDL phase has no maximum, and the EoS for HDL has no second critical point. At λ = 23 the behavior is isomorphic with that of the mW model of water, which is now seen to conform, at least closely, to the critical point free scenario for water.
AB - Following Vasisht et al s identification of the second critical point (Tc2, Pc2) for liquid silicon in the Stillinger Weber (S W) model for silicon, we study the variation of Tc2, Pc2 with tetrahedral repulsion parameter in an extension of the earlier potential tuning study of this system. We use the simple isochore crossing approach to identify the location of the second critical point (before any crystallization can occur) as a function of the tuning or tetrahedrality , parameter λ, and identify two phenomena of high interest content. The first is that the second critical point pressure Pc2, becomes less negative as λ decreases from the silicon value (meaning the drive to high tetrahedrality is decreased) and reaches zero pressure at the same value of lambda found to mark the onset of glassforming ability in an earlier study of this tunable system. The second is that, as the Tc,2 approaches the temperature of the liquid gas spinodal, λ > 22, the behavior of the temperature of maximum density (TMD) switches from the behavior seen in most current water pair potential models (locus of TMDs has a maximum), to the behavior seen in empirical engineering multiparameter equations of state (EoS) (and also by two parameter Speedy isothermal expansion EoS) for water, according to which the locus of TMDs of HDL phase has no maximum, and the EoS for HDL has no second critical point. At λ = 23 the behavior is isomorphic with that of the mW model of water, which is now seen to conform, at least closely, to the critical point free scenario for water.
KW - Ergodicity breaking
KW - Glasses (structural)
KW - Random/ordered microstructures
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-5468/2016/09/094004
DO - 10.1088/1742-5468/2016/09/094004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85001129573
SN - 1742-5468
VL - 2016
JO - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
JF - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
IS - 9
M1 - 094004
ER -