{
  "id": "cond-mat/0008153",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2000-08-09T16:09:16.000Z",
  "updated": "2000-08-09T16:09:16.000Z",
  "title": "Saddles on the potential energy landscape of a Lennard-Jones liquid",
  "authors": [
    "Kurt Broderix",
    "Kamal K. Bhattacharya",
    "Andrea Cavagna",
    "Annette Zippelius",
    "Irene Giardina"
  ],
  "comment": "Invited talk presented by A.C. at the Conference: Disordered and Complex Systems, King's College London, July 2000",
  "journal": "AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 553, pag. 23 (2001)",
  "doi": "10.1063/1.1358158",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "By means of molecular dynamics simulations, we study the stationary points of the potential energy in a Lennard-Jones liquid, giving a purely geometric characterization of the energy landscape of the system. We find a linear relation between the degree of instability of the stationary points and their potential energy, and we locate the energy where the instability vanishes. This threshold energy marks the border between saddle-dominated and minima-dominated regions of the energy landscape. The temperature where the potential energy of the Stillinger-Weber minima becomes equal to the threshold energy turns out to be very close to the mode-coupling transition temperature.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2000-08-09T16:09:16.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "potential energy landscape",
      "lennard-jones liquid",
      "stationary points",
      "molecular dynamics simulations",
      "threshold energy turns"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "conference paper",
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "AIP",
      "journal": "AIP Conf. Proc."
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}