Abstract
We use molecular dynamics simulations in 2D to study multi-component systems in the limiting case where all the particles are different (APD). The particles are assumed to interact via Lennard-Jones potentials, with identical size parameters but their pair interaction parameters are generated at random from a uniform or from a peaked distribution. We analyze both the global and the local properties of these systems at temperatures above the freezing transition and find that APD fluids relax into a non-random state characterized by clustering of particles according to the values of their pair interaction parameters (particle-identity ordering).
Original language | English |
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Article number | 051104 |
Pages (from-to) | 051104 |
Journal | Journal of Chemical Physics |
Volume | 142 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 7 Feb 2015 |
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