2013/01/09 by Walter Kob, Ludovic Berthier
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.dis-nn #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.110.245702
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 245702 (2013) · 7 pages
arxiv created 2013/01/09 · arxiv updated 2015/06/12
We use computer simulations to investigate the static properties of a simple glass-forming fluid in which the positions of a finite fraction of the particles has been frozen in. By probing the equilibrium distribution of the overlap between independent configurations of the liquid, we find strong evidence that this random pinning induces a glass transition. At low temperatures, our numerical findings are consistent with the existence of a random first order phase transition rounded by finite size effects.