Reply to “Comment on ‘Quasisaddles as relevant points of the potential energy surface in the dynamics of supercooled liquids’ ” [J. Chem. Phys. 118, 5263 (2002)] | Zendy

L. Angelani | Zendy; Roberto Di Leonardo | Zendy; G. Ruocco | Zendy; Antonio Scala | Zendy; Francesco Sciortino | Zendy

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Reply to “Comment on ‘Quasisaddles as relevant points of the potential energy surface in the dynamics of supercooled liquids’ ” [J. Chem. Phys. 118, 5263 (2002)]

Author(s) -

L. Angelani,

Roberto Di Leonardo,

G. Ruocco,

Antonio Scala,

Francesco Sciortino

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

the journal of chemical physics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1089-7690

pISSN - 0021-9606

DOI - 10.1063/1.1553755

Subject(s) - supercooling , interpretation (philosophy) , curvature , statement (logic) , physics , surface (topology) , order (exchange) , theoretical physics , energy (signal processing) , statistical physics , dynamics (music) , mathematical physics , thermodynamics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , geometry , philosophy , epistemology , linguistics , finance , acoustics , economics

We reply to the Comment on the paper “Quasisaddles as relevant points of the potential energy surface in the dynamics of supercooled liquids” [J. Chem. Phys. 116, 10297 (2002)]. While we agree with J. P. K. Doye and D. J. Wales on their improved enumeration of zero curvature directions at quasisaddle points, we criticize their statement that this has important implications for the interpretation of our results. Indeed, we show here that the temperature dependence of the order of quasisaddles and true saddles are numerically coincident, providing a strong support to our previous interpretation.

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