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Configurational Entropy and Adam-Gibbs Relation for Quantum Liquids

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Pith's one-line read Ring-polymer simulations show that a configurational entropy taken from the classical energy landscape controls diffusion in a quantum Lennard-Jones mixture, extending the Adam-Gibbs relation to quantum liquids.

desk verdict A useful extension of PEL/Adam-Gibbs to quantum LJBM, but the key assumption that classical and quantum IS distributions match is only partially tested, since the anharmonic fit shares the same data. read the letter →

arxiv 2507.21323 v1 pith:DGRZA2QG submitted 2025-07-28 cond-mat.soft

Yang Zhou , Ali Eltareb , Gustavo E. Lopez , Nicolas Giovambattista This is my paper · ORCID
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The reading

This paper asks whether the potential energy landscape (PEL) picture of glassy liquids—basins, inherent structures, configurational entropy—survives when the liquid obeys quantum mechanics rather than classical mechanics. Using ring-polymer molecular dynamics of a Lennard-Jones binary mixture at three values of Planck's constant, the authors define a configurational entropy $S_{IS}$ from the distribution of inherent structures of the ring-polymer landscape and show that the Adam-Gibbs relation $D = D_0\exp(-A/(T S_{IS}))$ holds over more than four decades in the diffusion coefficient $D$ for every level of quantumness studied. The key step is the hypothesis that the inherent-structure distribution is identical to the classical liquid's, so the same Gaussian landscape parameters describe both cases. If this is right, a single theoretical formalism describes low-temperature liquids near the glass transition whether they are classical or quantum, which matters for light elements and hydrogen-containing molecules like water where nuclear quantum effects cannot be ignored.

What carries the argument

The central object is the ring-polymer potential energy landscape, $U_{RP}(R)$, whose local minima (inherent structures) define the configurational entropy. The load-bearing identities are the Gaussian approximation for the inherent-structure distribution, $S_{IS}(e_{IS}) = k_B[\alpha N - (e_{IS}-E_0)^2/(2\sigma^2)]$, the harmonic basin free energy with the shape function $S(e_{IS})$, the linear anharmonic correction $\beta F_{anh} = \tilde{B}_0(T) + \tilde{B}_1(T)e_{IS}$, and the Adam-Gibbs formula $D = D_0\exp(-A/(T S_{IS}))$. The machinery connects a thermodynamic count of basins to dynamics: $S_{IS}(T)$ is evaluated at the quantum-sampled $E_{IS}(T)$ using classical Gaussian parameters, and that value is inserted into the Adam-Gibbs relation, whose fit to the centroid mean-square-displacement diffusion coefficients is the paper's central test.

What would settle it

Run the same RPMD protocol at larger $h$ or lighter masses and check whether the ring polymers at the sampled inherent structures have a nonzero radius of gyration; if they do, hypothesis (B) is false and the classical $S_{IS}(e_{IS})$ should no longer satisfy Eq. 34. A direct computation of the quantum inherent-structure distribution that disagrees with the classical Gaussian at low temperature would also settle the claim.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

On its own terms, the paper's discovery is that a quantum liquid can be assigned a configurational entropy through the ring-polymer potential energy landscape, and that this entropy controls the liquid's dynamics in the same way as in classical liquids. The authors treat the quantum liquid as a classical system of ring polymers with potential $U_{RP}(R) = \frac{1}{2}\sum k_{sp}(r^{k+1}-r^k)^2 + \frac{1}{n_b}\sum U(r^k_1,\ldots,r^k_N)$, locate inherent structures by energy minimization, and assume (hypothesis B) that the Gaussian distribution of these minima has the same parameters $\{\alpha, E_0, \sigma^2\}$ as the classical liquid. It follows that $S_{IS}(e_{IS}) = k_B[\alpha N - (e_{IS}-E_0)^2/(2\sigma^2)]$ is independent of $h$, while $S_{IS}(T)$ still depends on $h$ because the sampled inherent-structure energy $E_{IS}(T)$ does; the Kauzmann temperature rises from 0.291 to 0.406 as $h$ increases. For the stronger-quantum mixtures the harmonic basin approximation fails, so the paper adds anharmonic corrections modeled by $\beta F_{anh} = \tilde{B}_0(T) + \tilde{B}_1(T)e_{IS}$. With these ingredients the reported self-consistency relation Eq. 34 holds up to $T\approx 1.0$, and the Adam-Gibbs relation holds for all $h$ over more than four decades in $D$.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is hypothesis (B): the set of inherent structures of the quantum ring-polymer landscape is exactly the classical set, so the Gaussian landscape parameters and $S_{IS}(e_{IS})$ do not depend on $h$; this is assumed from the observation that ring polymers are collapsed at the sampled minima, not derived from an independent sampling of the quantum distribution.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • For the simulated Lennard-Jones binary mixture, the Adam-Gibbs relation $D = D_0\exp(-A/(T S_{IS}))$ holds for the classical case and for all three quantum cases over more than four decades in $D$, so potential-energy-landscape topography appears to control quantum-liquid dynamics just as it does classically.
  • The Gaussian landscape parameters $\{\alpha, E_0, \sigma^2\}$ can be obtained from classical molecular dynamics, so the thermodynamic input to the configurational entropy of a mildly quantum liquid does not require expensive path-integral sampling.
  • Nuclear quantum effects shift the configurational entropy to higher temperatures: the Kauzmann temperature $T_K$ increases from 0.291 to 0.406 as $h$ goes from 0 to $h_c$, which is a concrete, checkable prediction for more quantum glass-formers.
  • Anharmonic corrections to the basin free energy are negligible for the classical and weakly quantum cases but essential at $h_b$ and $h_c$; a linear-in-$e_{IS}$ form with temperature-dependent coefficients captures them.
  • The self-consistency relation Eq. 34 validates the computed $S_{IS}(e_{IS})$ up to about $T = 1.0$, indicating the PEL description extends well above the deep-glass regime.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Because the paper ties the whole quantum shift of $S_{IS}$ to the depth $E_{IS}(T)$ sampled by the quantum liquid, it implies a simple mapping: quantum delocalization moves the liquid to deeper basins at a given $T$, and this alone raises $T_K$; this could be tested against isotope-substituted water (H2O vs D2O) without new simulation methods.
  • A natural boundary of the construction is the collapse of ring polymers at inherent structures: at larger $h$, lower temperature, or lighter masses the polymers should delocalize at minima, hypothesis (B) would fail, and the Adam-Gibbs collapse should break—an observable crossover.
  • If the relation survives in real quantum glass-formers, diffusion measurements plus the classical $S_{IS}(e_{IS})$ curve would let one read off how deeply a quantum liquid sits in its landscape, effectively using dynamics as a quantum thermometer of landscape depth.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript extends the potential energy landscape (PEL) formalism to quantum liquids by combining ring-polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) simulations of a Lennard-Jones binary mixture with the assumption, stated as Hypothesis (B) in Sec. 3.3, that the distribution of inherent structures in the ring-polymer PEL is identical to that of the classical liquid. Under this assumption, the Gaussian PEL parameters {α, E0, σ²} are taken from classical MD, and anharmonic corrections are introduced through Eq. (24) with coefficients fitted to RPMD data. The configurational entropy S_IS(T) is then computed, validated via Eq. (34)/Fig. 6, and used to construct an Adam-Gibbs plot (Fig. 7) showing that D = D0 exp(-A/(T S_IS)) holds over about four decades in D for all studied values of the Planck constant h. The paper claims that the PEL formalism and the Adam-Gibbs relation can be applied to low-temperature quantum liquids.

Significance. If fully established, the result would be significant: it would provide a practical route to configurational entropy and Adam-Gibbs analysis for systems where nuclear quantum effects are important, such as water and hydrogen-rich liquids, and it would generalize a widely used classical framework. The paper has clear strengths: it uses RPMD with explicit h-dependence, reports the physically suggestive observation that ring-polymers collapse at the sampled inherent structures (Fig. 1c), introduces a systematic anharmonic correction scheme, and presents a striking linear Adam-Gibbs correlation. The main caveat is that the central validation of Hypothesis (B) relies on anharmonic coefficients fitted to the same RPMD data that are later used to define S_IS, so the manuscript currently establishes a plausible self-consistent framework rather than an independent confirmation of the classical/quantum identity of the IS distribution.

major comments (3)
  1. [Sec. 3.3, Eqs. (24)-(29), Fig. 4] The agreement in Fig. 4 is presented as support for hypothesis (B), but the lines are fits, not predictions. The coefficients {c_{0,i}, c_{1,i}} in Eq. (31) are obtained by fitting E_anh_IS(T) = E_IS(T) - E_harm_IS(T) and E_anh_vib(T) from the same RPMD data via Eqs. (25) and (26). Since E_harm_IS = E0 - σ²(β + b) and E_anh_IS = -σ² B1(T), the fitted B1(T) can compensate for h-dependence of E0 or σ². Thus the Fig. 4 agreement does not uniquely validate the h-independence of {α, E0, σ²}; it only shows that the four-parameter anharmonic model is flexible enough to reproduce E_IS(T) and E_vib(T). The statement in Sec. 4 that 'Fig. 4 also supports strongly that hypothesis (B) indeed holds' is therefore overstated. This is especially important because Refs. [41,42] previously found {α, E0, σ²} to be h-dependent; the present reversal rests entirely on (B). Please reframe Fig. 4 as a fit consistency check and provide a test that can distinguish (B) from a model with h-dependent {α, E0, σ²}.
  2. [Eq. (34), Fig. 6] The validation of the configurational entropy is partially circular. The right-hand side of Eq. (34) uses F_anh^vib with coefficients fitted to the same E_IS(T) and E_vib(T) data that determine the S_IS(T) being tested, and the temperature-dependent constant c(T) is adjusted for maximum overlap per temperature. Consequently, the test can absorb systematic errors in the assumed Gaussian parameters and cannot cleanly falsify hypothesis (B). A stronger test would be to determine the anharmonic coefficients from a subset of temperatures (or from an independent observable such as pressure) and then test Eq. (34) on the remaining temperatures, with c(T) fixed by the normalization of P(e_IS,T) rather than by best overlap. As written, Fig. 6 is a self-consistency check within the fitted model, not an independent measurement of the quantum-liquid configurational entropy.
  3. [Fig. 7 and Sec. 4 (Adam-Gibbs)] No statistical measures accompany the Adam-Gibbs fits. The paper reports a 'remarkably good' agreement over more than four decades in D, but gives no R², chi-squared, or confidence intervals for D0 and A, and no error bars for S_IS. Because S_IS(T) is generated from the same fitted anharmonic model, the linearity in Fig. 7 is not yet established as an independent dynamical test of Hypothesis (B). Please report goodness-of-fit statistics for each h and propagate uncertainties in the Gaussian and anharmonic parameters into S_IS and the AG fit. This is needed to assess whether the AG correlation is meaningful or partly an artifact of the fitting procedure.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Sec. 3.3 vs Sec. 5] The hypothesis actually adopted is called (B) in Sec. 3.3 but is called (A) in Sec. 5; please harmonize the notation.
  2. [Eq. (15)] Eq. (15) writes E0(V,T) and σ²(V,T), but the text immediately assumes they are T-independent; use E0(V) and σ²(V) in the equation for consistency.
  3. [Fig. 4 caption] The Fig. 4 caption calls the lines 'the prediction of the PEL formalism'; since the anharmonic coefficients are fitted to the same data, 'fit' or 'model' is more accurate.
  4. [Sec. 2, bead convergence] The bead-convergence test for h=hc (nb=20, 40) is mentioned but no results are shown; please include a convergence table or figure in the SI.
  5. [Fig. 6] Fig. 6(a) shows no T=2.0 point for h=ha, unlike panels (b) and (c); the statement that deviations become evident at T=2.0 should be made only for h=hb and hc.
  6. [Eq. (22)] The notation in Eq. (22), 'c_i / 1 - i T^i', is unclear; please define the coefficients and the intended power-law form explicitly.

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The quantum configurational entropy is imported from the classical liquid by hypothesis (B), and the test of that hypothesis uses anharmonic terms fitted to the same RPMD data, so the central AG claim rests on an assumed, not independently measured, quantum S_IS.

  1. self definitional [Sec. 3.3 (Hypotheses and Protocols), Eqs. 9-10; Fig. 5(a)]
    "In this work, we will assume that option (B) holds. Accordingly, the values of {α, E0, σ2} are considered to be h-independent and hence, they will be extracted from the classical MD simulations, following the same procedure from previous classical MD simulations [39,40,43,46,63]. It follows from Eq. 10, that hypothesis (B) also implies that the configurational entropy SIS of the system as a function of eIS is identical for the classical and quantum liquid."

    The paper presents the h-independence of S_IS(eIS) and the possibility of defining a quantum configurational entropy as a result, but this is imposed by hypothesis (B). Equation 10 with the classical parameters {α, E0, σ2} is adopted as the definition of S_IS for every quantum h, so Fig. 5(a), which shows a single h-independent S_IS(eIS) curve, is an algebraic restatement of the assumption rather than a measured property of the ring-polymer PEL. The later Adam-Gibbs test then correlates the independently measured D(T) with an S_IS whose eIS-dependence was never extracted from quantum simulations.

  2. fitted input called prediction [Sec. 3.3 and Sec. 4, Eqs. 24-26, 31, 34; Fig. 6]
    "The so-obtained values of Eanh IS (T ) and Eanh vib (T ) are indicated by circles in Fig. 2(c)(d). Also included in Figs. 2(c)(d) are the fits to Eanh IS (T ) and Eanh vib (T ) using Eqs. 25 and 26, respectively, and Eq. 31 (lines). ... In this work, we will calculate P( eIS , T) directly from RPMD simulations of LJBMs and use Eq. 33 to validate the expression for SIS (N, V, T, eIS ) obtained from the PEL formalism (with the hypothesis (B) discussed above)."

    The proposed validation, Eq. 34, contains βF_anh^vib(T,eIS) = B0(T) + B1(T)eIS, where B0 and B1 are obtained by fitting the anharmonic energies E_anh^IS(T) and E_anh^vib(T) to the very same RPMD EIS(T) and Evib(T) data that define the test, and c(T) is adjusted for maximum overlap. Consequently, deviations of the assumed Gaussian S_IS from the sampled P(eIS,T) can be partially absorbed by the fitted slope B1 and by the arbitrary vertical offset c(T). The overlap shown in Fig. 6 is therefore a closed self-consistency loop, not an independent confirmation that the classical IS distribution describes the quantum RP-PEL.

full rationale

The paper is transparent about its main assumption: hypothesis (B), that the distribution of inherent structures in the ring-polymer PEL is identical to that of the classical liquid, so that {α, E0, σ2} and hence S_IS(eIS) are h-independent. That assumption is load-bearing for the paper's central claim that a configurational entropy can be defined for quantum liquids and that the Adam-Gibbs relation holds with this S_IS. Because S_IS(eIS) is imposed equal to the classical quantity, the statement that S_IS(eIS) is h-independent is true by construction. The only direct check offered is Eq. 34/Fig. 6, whose right-hand side includes anharmonic terms B0(T) and B1(T) fitted to the same RPMD EIS(T)/Evib(T) data used elsewhere in the paper, plus an arbitrary shift c(T); this cannot cleanly falsify hypothesis (B). The AG correlation itself is not mathematically forced, because D(T) is measured independently from RPMD and D0,A are the only fitted constants in Eq. 35, but its interpretive weight depends on the imported S_IS. The underlying PEL formalism and classical Gaussian/harmonic machinery are standard, and the classical LJBM treatment is self-contained; the circularity is confined to the quantum generalization, where the central new quantity is assumed rather than derived. Score 6 reflects a partial circularity: one key 'prediction' (quantum S_IS) reduces by definition to its classical input, and its validation reduces to a fit.

Assumptions & free parameters 5 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No new particles, forces, or conserved quantities are introduced. The ring-polymer representation is a standard computational device from path-integral theory, and the imaginary ring-polymer system in Appendix B is a mathematical construction used to derive Eq. B1.

free parameters (5)
  • Gaussian PEL parameters {α, E0, σ²} = Not stated numerically
    Obtained by fitting E_IS vs β + b for the classical LJBM (Sec. 3.3); assumed h-independent for quantum liquids by hypothesis (B). These parameters enter S_IS via Eq. 10.
  • Shape function coefficients a(N,V,T), b(N,V,T) = Not stated numerically
    Fit to S(e_IS) computed from Hessian eigenvalues (Eq. 30); b enters E_IS via Eq. 28.
  • Anharmonic coefficients {c_{0,i}, c_{1,i}} i=1..3 = Not stated numerically
    Fit to E_anh_IS and E_anh_vib (Figs. 2c,d) using Eqs. 25, 26, 31; used to define F_anh in Eq. 24.
  • Adam-Gibbs constants D0 and A = Not stated numerically
    Fitted per h for the four data sets in Fig. 7; standard AG parameters but still free.
  • Vertical shift c(T) in Eq. 34 = Adjusted per temperature
    Adjusted for maximum overlap in the Fig. 6 validation; does not affect the e_IS-dependence of the test.
assumptions (6)
  • standard math Path-integral isomorphism: the quantum partition function equals the classical ring-polymer partition function as nb → ∞ (Eq. 3).
    Standard result from path-integral quantum statistical mechanics, cited to Refs. [58,59].
  • standard math The PEL partition function sum can be approximated by a single dominant term (saddle point approximation, Eq. 7).
    Standard approximation in the PEL formalism, valid in the thermodynamic limit.
  • domain assumption The IS energy distribution is Gaussian with T-independent parameters α(V), E0(V), σ²(V) (Eqs. 9-10, 15).
    Supported by previous simulation studies, but an assumption; for quantum systems it implies the T-dependence of the RP-PEL does not affect the IS distribution.
  • domain assumption PEL basins are harmonic, with anharmonic corrections captured by βF_anh = B0 + B1 e_IS (Eq. 24).
    The first-order-in-e_IS expansion is chosen because it fit the data; higher orders are dropped.
  • ad hoc to paper Hypothesis (B): the IS distribution of the quantum ring-polymer PEL is identical to the classical PEL because ring-polymers collapse at sampled IS.
    Assumed in Sec. 3.3; central to defining S_IS for the quantum liquid. The paper offers simulation evidence (Fig. 1c squares) but no proof.
  • domain assumption RPMD centroid MSD provides a good approximation to the quantum diffusion coefficient.
    Standard RPMD approximation for dynamics, relied on for D(T) in Fig. 7.

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abstract

As a liquid approaches the glass state, its dynamics slows down rapidly, by a few orders of magnitude in a very small temperature range. In the case of light elements and small molecules containing hydrogen (e.g., water), such a process can be affected by nuclear quantum effects (due to quantum fluctuations/atoms delocalization). In this work, we apply the potential energy landscape (PEL) formalism and path-integral computer simulations to study the low-temperature behavior of a Lennard-Jones binary mixture (LJBM) that obeys quantum mechanics. We show that, as for the case of classical liquids, (i) a configurational entropy $S_{IS}$ can be defined, and (ii) the Adam-Gibbs equation, which relates the diffusion coefficient of a liquid and its $S_{IS}$, holds for the studied quantum LJBM. Overall, our work shows that one theoretical approach, the PEL formalism, can be used to describe low-temperature liquids close to their glass transition, independently of whether the system obeys classical or quantum mechanics.

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