Fermi-Jagla model

The Fermi-Jagla model is a smooth variant of the Jagla model. It is given by (Eq. 1 in ):

$\Phi _{12}(r)=\epsilon _{0}\left[\left({\frac {a}{r}}\right)^{n}+{\frac {A_{0}}{1+\exp \left[{\frac {A_{1}}{A_{0}}}{\frac {r}{a-A_{2}}}\right]}}-{\frac {B_{0}}{1+\exp \left[{\frac {B_{1}}{B_{0}}}{\frac {r}{a-B_{2}}}\right]}}\right]$

There is a relation between Fermi function and hyperbolic tangent:

${\frac {1}{e^{x}+1}}={\frac {1}{2}}-{\frac {1}{2}}\tanh {\frac {x}{2}}$

Using this relation one can show that Fermi-Jagla model is equivalent to Fomin potential introduced earlier.

References

Related reading

• Shaina Reisman and Nicolas Giovambattista "Glass and liquid phase diagram of a polyamorphic monatomic system", Journal of Chemical Physics 138 064509 (2013)