Entropy-vanishing transition and glassy dynamics in frustrated spins
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-31 v2
Abstract
In an effort to understand the glass transition, the dynamics of a non-randomly frustrated spin model has been analyzed. The phenomenology of the spin model is similar to that of a supercooled liquid undergoing the glass transition. The slow dynamics can be associated with the presence of extended string-like structures which demarcate regions of fast spin flips. An entropy-vanishing transition, with the string density as the order parameter, is related to the observed glass transition in the spin model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0004483,
title = {Entropy-vanishing transition and glassy dynamics in frustrated spins},
author = {Hui Yin and Bulbul Chakraborty},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0004483},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages,5 figures, accepted in PRL January 2001