Are Mean-Field Spin-Glass Models Relevant for the Structural Glass Transition?
Abstract
We analyze the properties of the energy landscape of {\it finite-size} fully connected p-spin-like models whose high temperature phase is described, in the thermodynamic limit, by the schematic Mode Coupling Theory of super-cooled liquids. We show that {\it finite-size} fully connected p-spin-like models, where activated processes are possible, do exhibit properties typical of real super-cooled liquid when both are near the critical glass transition. Our results support the conclusion that fully-connected p-spin-like models are the natural statistical mechanical models for studying the glass transition in super-cooled liquids.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9911351,
title = {Are Mean-Field Spin-Glass Models Relevant for the Structural Glass Transition?},
author = {A. Crisanti and F. Ritort},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9911351},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 Pages, 2 figures included, Latex (elsart.cls included), Contributed paper to the Int. Conf. on "Statistical Mechanics and Strongly Correlated System", 2nd Giovanni Paladin Memorial, Rome 27-29 September 1999, submitted to Physica A