Predicting the effective temperature of a glass

Abstract

We explain the findings by Di Leonardo et al. that the effective temperature of a Lennard-Jones glass depends only on the final density in the volume and/or temperature jump that produces the glass. This is not only a property of the Lennard-Jones liquid, but a feature of all strongly correlating liquids. For such liquids data from a single quench simulation provide enough information to predict the effective temperature of any glass produced by jumping from an equilibrium state. This prediction is validated by simulations of the Kob-Andersen binary Lennard-Jones liquid and shown not to apply for the nonstrongly correlating monatomic Lennard-Jones Gaussian liquid. © 2010 The American Physical Society.