  Simulation studies of the atomic shear stress in the local potential energy
minima (inherent structures) are reported for binary liquid mixtures in 2D and
3D. These inherent structure stresses are fundamental to slow stress relaxation
and high viscosity in supercooled liquids. We find that the atomic shear stress
in the inherent structures (IS) of both liquids at rest exhibits slowly
decaying anisotropic correlations. We show that the stress correlations
contributes significantly to the variance of the total shear stress of the IS
configurations and consider the origins of the anisotropy and spatial extent of
the stress correlations.
