Effective temperature of an aging powder
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-31 v3
Abstract
The aging dynamics and the fluctuation-dissipation relation between the spontaneous diffusion induced by a random noise and the drift motion induced by a small stirring force are numerically investigated in a 3D schematic model of compacting powder: a gravity-driven lattice-gas with kinetic constraints. The compaction dynamics is characterized by a super-aging behaviour and, in analogy with glasses, exhibits a purely dynamical time-scale dependent effective temperature. A simple experiment to measure this quantity is suggested.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0012273,
title = {Effective temperature of an aging powder},
author = {M. Sellitto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0012273},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures; to appear in Phys. Rev. E