Energy and entropy of metastable states in glassy systems
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We investigate the multi-valley energy landscape of a 3-D on-lattice network model for covalent glasses, numerically determining the shape of the valleys, the local density of states, the density of minima and the local connectivity. We present some of these quantities in a graphical birds-eye view of the landscape, and discuss their implications for the relaxation dynamics and cooling behavior of glasses. The strong similarities between the landscape of this model and those of other complex systems point to the possibility of a common low-temperature dynamical description.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9911197,
title = {Energy and entropy of metastable states in glassy systems},
author = {J. Christian Schoen and P. Sibani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9911197},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
RevTeX, 7 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Europhysics Letters