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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 9: Poster - Glasses / Stat. Phys. Bio. / Networks (joint session DY/BP/CPP/SOE)

SOE 9.15: Poster

Tuesday, April 1, 2014, 09:30–12:30, P1

The potential energy landscape of sheared glass-forming systems — •Markus Blank-Burian and Andreas Heuer — Institut für Physikalische Chemie, WWU Münster, Deutschland

We performed molecular dynamics simulations of small supercooled binary Lennard-Jones mixtures (65 <= N <= 1040) under a constant shear rate. The shearing is achieved by applying Lees-Edwards periodic boundary conditions to the system. The potential energy landscape (PEL) is most informative for small systems. However, we also study the influence of finite size effects on our results.

In previous work, it was shown, that the finite size effects in unsheared systems is quite small for thermodynamic observables and for the diffusivity. The dynamics of these systems can be described by a continous time random walk (CTRW) between minima in the potential energy landscape. Our focus now lies on comparing these results with the constantly sheared system.

In the sheared system, we test for finite size effects in general properties like the velocity profile or the shear viscosity. Since the potential energy landscape is now time-dependent, we use affine transformations to understand the temporal evolution of its minima. With this insight, we can use the same continuous time random walk analysis as with the unsheared system.