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The liquid-glass transition of silica

B. Coluzzi, P. Verrocchio

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0108464

Abstract

We studied the liquid-glass transition of SiO2 by means of replica theory, utilizing an effective pair potential which was proved to reproduce a few experimental features of silica. We found a finite critical temperature T0, where the system undergoes a phase transition related to replica symmetry breaking, in a region where experiments do not show any transition. The possible sources of this discrepancy are discussed.

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