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Fluctuation dissipation ratio in an aging Lennard-Jones glass

Jean-Louis Barrat, Walter Kob

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/9806027

Abstract

By using extensive Molecular Dynamics simulations, we have determined the violation of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem in a Lennard-Jones liquid quenched to low temperatures. For this we have calculated X(C), the ratio between a one particle time-correlation function C and the associated response function. Our results are best fitted by assuming that X(C) is a discontinuous, piecewise constant function. This is similar to what is found in spin systems with one step replica symmetry breaking. This strengthen the conjecture of a similarity between the phase space structure of structural glasses and such spin systems.

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