Abstract. To explore the role that temperature and percolation of rigidity play in determining the macroscopic properties, we propose a model that adds translational degrees of freedom to the spins of the well known Ising hamiltonian. In particular, the Ising model illustrate the longstanding idea that the growth of correlations on approach to a critical point could be describable in terms of the percolation of some sort of "physical cluster". For certain parameters of this model we observe two well defined peaks of CV , that suggest the existence of two kinds of "physical percolation", namely connectivity and rigidity percolation. Thermal fluctuations give rise to two different kinds of elementary excitations, i.e. droplets and configuron, as suggested by Angell in the framework of a bond lattice model approach. The later is reflected in the fluctuations of redundant constraints that gives stability to the structure and correlate with the order parameter.
IntroductionIn order to explore the role that the lost of degrees of freedom (dof) plays due to the decrease of temperature in a magnetic network bond forming lattice, we propose an extension of the Ising Model. In this extension, each particle, that has a spin associated, and can freely translate inside a cell, but not escape from it. The later in a similar way to the early cell-theory of liquids, where each Wigner-Seitz cell is occupied by at most one particle [1], to mimic the conditions of a particle caged inside its neighbors [2]. Although mainly of academic interest, this model could have applications in the study of real systems as the spin-crossover in solid materials [3] or in the study of thermodynamical or structural properties of magnetic gels [4], where sudden sharp properties are mainly attributed to the percolation of the bond network [5,6]. For simplicity in this preliminary version of the model we have considered the case where all cells are occupied by one point-like particle (i.e. does not have excluded volume or area in 2D), then no interactions far from first neighbor cells can occurs, as we describe in the following.