Abstract
The free energy of the supercooled liquid near freezing is studied in the density-functional approach using the modified weighted density approximation. A class of minima corresponding to heterogeneous structures characterized by weak mass localization are detected. The stability of these structures is found to be greater than the highly localized “hard-sphere glass” state in the intermediate density range above freezing.
- Received 18 September 2001
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.65.026123
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