Saddles and softness in simple model liquids.
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We report a numerical study of saddles properties of the potential energy landscape for soft spheres with different softness, i.e. different power n of the interparticle repulsive potential. We find that saddle-based quantities rescale into master curves once energies and temperatures are scaled by mode-coupling temperature TMCT , confirming and generalizing previous findings obtained for Lennard-Jones like models.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of chemical physics
دوره 121 15 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004