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Dynamical arrest, tracer diffusion and Kinetically Constrained Lattice Gases

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We analyze the tagged particle diffusion for kinetically constrained models for glassy systems. We present a method, focusing on the Kob-Andersen model as an example, which allows to prove lower and upper bounds for the self diffusion coefficient DSD_S. This method leads to the exact density dependence of DSD_{S}, at high density, for models with finite defects and to prove diffusivity, DS>0D_{S}>0, at any finite density for highly cooperative models. A more general outcome is that under very general assumptions one can exclude that a dynamical transition, like the one predicted by the Mode-Coupling-Theory of glasses, takes place at a finite temperature/chemical potential for systems of interacting particles on a lattice.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0402314,
  title  = {Dynamical arrest, tracer diffusion and Kinetically Constrained Lattice Gases},
  author = {Cristina Toninelli and Giulio Biroli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0402314},
  year   = {2009}
}

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28 pages, 4 figures

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