Crossover from Fragile to Strong Glassy Behaviour in Kinetically Constrained Systems
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-07 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Abstract
We show the existence of fragile-to-strong transitions in kinetically constrained systems by studying the equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium dynamics of a generic constrained Ising spin chain which interpolates between the symmetric and fully asymmetric cases. We find that for large but finite asymmetry the model displays a crossover from fragile to strong glassy behaviour at finite temperature, which is controlled by the asymmetry parameter. The relaxation in the fragile region presents stretched exponential behaviour, with a temperature dependent stretching exponent which is predicted. Our results are confirmed by numerical simulations.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0104340,
title = {Crossover from Fragile to Strong Glassy Behaviour in Kinetically Constrained Systems},
author = {Arnaud Buhot and Juan P. Garrahan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0104340},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 3 figures