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Configurational Entropy and its Crisis in Metastable States: Ideal Glass Transition in a Dimer Model as a Paragidm of a Molecular Glass
We discuss the need for discretization to evaluate the configurational
entropy in a general model. We also discuss the prescription using restricted
partition function formalism to study the stationary limit of metastable
states. We introduce a lattice model of dimers as a paradigm of molecular fluid
and study metastability in it to investigate the root cause of glassy behavior.
We demonstrate the existence of the entropy crisis in metastable states, from
which it follows that the entropy crisis is the root cause underlying the ideal
glass transition in systems with particles of all sizes. The orientational
interactions in the model control the nature of the liquid-liquid transition
observed in recent years in molecular glasses.Comment: 36 pages, 9 figure