The entropy of a glass
作者:
RobinJ. Speedy,
期刊:
Molecular Physics
(Taylor Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 80,
issue 5
页码: 1105-1120
ISSN:0026-8976
年代: 1993
DOI:10.1080/00268979300102911
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
From the thermodynamic viewpoint the glass transition is a second-order change: there is no latent heat involved, so the entropy varies continuously through the transition. But the transition is not a reversible process. A simulation study of the hard-sphere fluid shows that the statistical entropy, defined in terms of the configuration integral, decreases by 0·20 ± 0·03Nkwhen it forms a glass, which indicates that a system ofNhard spheres can form about exp (0·2N) glasses. For the system ofN= 256 spheres studied there are about 1022distinct glasses.
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