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Ring Statistics in 2D Silica: Effective Temperatures in Equilibrium
Projesh Kumar Roy1,2, Andreas Heuer2
1NRW Graduate School of Chemistry, Wilhelm-Klemm-Straße 10, 48149 Münster, Germany.
Abstract:
The thermodynamic properties of subsystems in strong interaction with the neighborhood can largely differ from the standard behavior. Here we study the thermodynamic properties of rings and triplets in equilibrated disordered 2D silica. Their statistics follows a Boltzmann behavior, albeit with a strongly reduced temperature. This effective temperature strongly depends on the length scale of the chosen subsystem. From a systematic analysis of the 1D Ising model and an analytically solvable model, we suggest that these observations reflect the presence of strong local positive energy correlations.
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