TY - JOUR
T1 - Do binary hard disks exhibit an ideal glass transition?
AU - Donev, Aleksandar
AU - Stillinger, Frank H.
AU - Torquato, Salvatore
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - We demonstrate that there is no ideal glass transition in a binary hard-disk mixture by explicitly constructing an exponential number of jammed packings with densities spanning the spectrum from the accepted amorphous glassy state to the phase-separated crystal. Thus the configurational entropy cannot be zero for an ideal amorphous glass, presumed distinct from the crystal in numerous theoretical and numerical estimates in the literature. This objection parallels our previous critique of the idea that there is a most-dense random (close) packing for hard spheres.
AB - We demonstrate that there is no ideal glass transition in a binary hard-disk mixture by explicitly constructing an exponential number of jammed packings with densities spanning the spectrum from the accepted amorphous glassy state to the phase-separated crystal. Thus the configurational entropy cannot be zero for an ideal amorphous glass, presumed distinct from the crystal in numerous theoretical and numerical estimates in the literature. This objection parallels our previous critique of the idea that there is a most-dense random (close) packing for hard spheres.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.225502
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.225502
M3 - Article
C2 - 16803319
AN - SCOPUS:33744810894
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 96
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 22
M1 - 225502
ER -