Effective temperatures out of equilibrium
Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We describe some interesting effects observed during the evolution of nonequilibrium systems, using domain growth and glassy systems as examples. We breafly discuss the analytical tools that have been recently used to study the dynamics of these systems. We mainly concentrate on one of the results obtained from this study, the violation of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem and we discuss, in particular, its relation to the definition and measurement of effective temperatures out of equilibrium.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9903250,
title = {Effective temperatures out of equilibrium},
author = {Leticia F. Cugliandolo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9903250},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages, RevTex, 2 figs, to appear in ``Trends in Theoretical Physics II'', eds. H Falomir et al, Am. Inst. Phys. Conf. Proc. of the 1998 Buenos Aires meeting