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Decoding heat capacity features from the energy landscape.

David J Wales1

  • 1University Chemical Laboratories, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.

Physical Review. E
|April 19, 2017
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This study introduces a general scheme connecting configuration space transitions to heat capacity features. It quantifies how competing states in potential energy landscapes drive these transitions, applicable to both molecular and abstract systems.

Area of Science:

  • Computational Chemistry
  • Statistical Mechanics
  • Machine Learning

Background:

  • Understanding transitions in complex systems requires analyzing potential energy landscapes.
  • Heat capacity provides insights into these transitions but lacks a direct link to configuration space features.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a general theoretical framework connecting configuration space transitions with heat capacity.
  • To provide a quantitative method for analyzing transitions based on occupation probabilities of local minima.
  • To demonstrate the applicability of the framework to molecular and abstract energy landscapes.

Main Methods:

  • Derivation of a general scheme linking configuration space transitions to heat capacity.
  • Formulation using occupation probabilities of local minima in potential energy landscapes.

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  • Application to solid-solid transitions in atomic clusters and cluster melting.

    • Main Results:

    • A quantitative description of how state competition contributes to heat capacity features.
    • Demonstrated applicability to atomic clusters and abstract functions.
    • Identification of a novel transition driven by a single local minimum with a large catchment volume in machine learning landscapes.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed scheme offers a direct interpretation of transitions by analyzing the balance of state occupation probabilities.
    • The theory is versatile, applicable to diverse systems including molecular and machine learning energy landscapes.
    • This approach provides a powerful tool for understanding complex system dynamics through their energy landscapes.