@article { ISI:000381384300031,
	title = {Composition dependence of the glass forming ability in binary mixtures: the role of demixing entropy},
	journal = {Journal of Chemical Physics},
	volume = {145},
	number = {3},
	year = {2016},
	month = {JUL},
	pages = {Article Number: 034503},
	publisher = {AMER INST PHYSICS},
	address = {1305 WALT WHITMAN RD, STE 300, MELVILLE, NY 11747-4501 USA},
	abstract = {<p>We present a comparative study of the glass forming ability of binary systems with varying composition, where the systems have similar global crystalline structure (CsCl+fcc). Biased Monte Carlo simulations using umbrella sampling technique show that the free energy cost to create a CsCl nucleus increases as the composition of the smaller particles is decreased. We find that systems with comparatively lower free energy cost to form CsCl nucleus exhibit more pronounced pre-crystalline demixing near the liquid/crystal interface. The structural frustration between the CsCl and fcc crystal demands this demixing. We show that closer to the equimolar mixture, the entropic penalty for demixing is lower and a glass forming system may crystallize when seeded with a nucleus. This entropic penalty as a function of composition shows a non-monotonic behaviour with a maximum at a composition similar to the well known Kob-Anderson (KA) model. Although the KA model shows the maximum entropic penalty and thus maximum frustration against CsCl formation, it also shows a strong tendency towards crystallization into fcc lattice of the larger {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}A{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} particles which can be explained from the study of the energetics. Thus for systems closer to the equimolar mixture although it is the requirement of demixing which provides their stability against crystallization, for KA model it is not demixing but slow dynamics and the presence of the {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}B{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} particles make it a good glass former. The locally favoured structure around {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}B{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} particles is quite similar to the CsCl structure and the incompatibility of CsCl and fcc hinders the fcc structure growth in the KA model. Although the glass forming binary systems studied here are quite similar, differing only in composition, we find that their glass forming ability cannot be attributed to a single phenomenon. Published by AIP Publishing.</p>},
	issn = {0021-9606},
	doi = {10.1063/1.4958630},
	author = {Nandi, Ujjwal Kumar and Banerjee, Atreyee and Chakrabarty, Suman and Bhattacharyya, Sarika Maitra}
}
@article {47043,
	title = {Connecting real glasses to mean-field models},
	journal = {Journal of Chemical Physics},
	volume = {154},
	year = {2021},
	month = {MAR},
	pages = {094506},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {<p>We propose a novel model for a glass-forming liquid, which allows us to switch in a continuous manner from a standard three-dimensional liquid to a fully connected mean-field model. This is achieved by introducing k additional particle-particle interactions, which thus augments the effective number of neighbors of each particle. Our computer simulations of this system show that the structure of the liquid does not change with the introduction of these pseudo-neighbors and by means of analytical calculations, and we determine the structural properties related to these additional neighbors. We show that the relaxation dynamics of the system slows down very quickly with the increase in k and that the onset and the mode-coupling temperatures increase. The systems with high values of k follow the mode-coupling theory power law behavior for a larger temperature range compared to the ones with lower values of k. The dynamic susceptibility indicates that the dynamic heterogeneity decreases with the increase in k, whereas the non-Gaussian parameter is independent of it. Thus, we conclude that with the increase in the number of pseudo-neighbors, the system becomes more mean-field-like. By comparing our results with previous studies on mean-field-like systems, we come to the conclusion that the details of how the mean-field limit is approached are important since they can lead to different dynamical behavior in this limit.</p>
},
	issn = {0021-9606},
	doi = {10.1063/5.0038749},
	author = {Nandi, Ujjwal Kumar and Kob, Walter and Bhattacharyya, Sarika Maitra}
}
