Scaling in soft spheres: fragility invariance on the repulsive potential softness

Cristiano De Michele, Francesco Sciortino, Antonio Coniglio
2004 Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter  
We address the question of the dependence of the fragility of glass forming supercooled liquids on the 'softness' of an interacting potential by performing numerical simulation of a binary mixture of soft spheres with different power n of the interparticle repulsive potential. We show that the temperature dependence of the diffusion coefficients for various n collapses onto a universal curve, supporting the unexpected view that fragility is not related to the hard core repulsion. We also find
more » ... at the configurational entropy correlates with the slowing down of the dynamics for all studied n.
doi:10.1088/0953-8984/16/45/l01 fatcat:t32afw7j7bdplddvuodsz7wnbe