Energy landscape properties studied using symbolic sequences

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Abstract: We investigate a classical lattice system with N particles. The potential energy V of the scalar displacements is chosen as a phi4 on-site potential plus interactions. Its stationary points are solutions of a coupled set of nonlinear equations. Starting with Aubry's anti-continuum limit it is easy to establish a one-to-one correspondence between the stationary points of V and symbolic sequences with sigman=+,0,. We prove that this correspondence remains valid for interactions with a coupling constant epsilon below a critical value epsilonc and that it allows the use of a thermodynamic formalism to calculate statistical properties of the so-called ``energy landscape of V. This offers an explanation why topological quantities of V may become singular, like in phase transitions. Particularly, we find the saddle index distribution is maximum at a saddle index nsmax=1/3 for all epsilon<epsilonc. Furthermore there exists an interval (v,vmax) in which the saddle index ns as function of average energy is analytical in and it vanishes at v, above the ground state energy vgs, whereas the average saddle index as function of energy v is highly nontrivial. It can exhibit a singularity at a critical energy vc and it vanishes at vgs, only. Close to exhibits power law behavior which even holds for noninteracting particles.









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