A tentative Replica Study of the Glass Transition
Condensed Matter
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
We propose a method to study quantitatively the glass transition in a system of interacting particles. In spite of the absence of any quenched disorder, we introduce a replicated version of the hypernetted chain equations. The solution of these equations, for hard or soft spheres, signals a transition to the glass phase. However the predicted value of the energy and specific heat in the glass phase are wrong, calling for an improvement of this method.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9602002,
title = {A tentative Replica Study of the Glass Transition},
author = {Marc Mezard and Giorgio Parisi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9602002},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, four postcript figures attached