2005/01/31 by A. Attili, Paola Gallo, P. Gallo +1
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Material Dynamics and Properties #Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics #cond-mat.dis-nn #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreve.71.031204
published as Phys. Rev E 71, 031204 (2005) · 5 pages, 4 figures. To be published in Phys. Rev. E
openalex publication_date 2005/03/21 · arxiv created 2005/04/06 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Calculations of the thermodynamical properties of a supercooled liquid confined in a matrix are performed with an inherent structure analysis. The liquid entropy is computed by means of a thermodynamical integration procedure. The contributions to the free energy of the liquid can be decoupled also in confinement in the configurational and the vibrational parts. We show that the vibrational entropy can be calculated in the harmonic approximation as in the bulk case. The Kauzmann temperature of the confined system is estimated from the behavior of the configurational entropy.