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1Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
Abstract:
We use the instantaneous normal mode approach to provide a description of the local curvature of the potential energy surface of a model for water. We focus on the region of the phase diagram in which the dynamics may be described by mode-coupling theory. We find that the diffusion constant depends on the fraction of directions in configuration space connecting different local minima, supporting the hypothesis that the dynamics are controlled by the geometric properties of configuration space. Furthermore, we find a relation between the number of basins accessed in equilibrium and the connectivity between them.
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