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Glass Phenomenology from the Connection to Spin Glasses

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-11-11 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Typical features of glass phenomenology such as the Vogel-Fulcher law, the Kauzmann paradox and the Adam-Gibbs relationship are shown to follow from the recently discovered mapping of glasses to Ising spin glasses in a magnetic field. There seems to be sufficient universality near the glass transition temperature TgT_g such that study of the spin glass system can provide semi-quantitative results for supercooled liquids.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0609113,
  title  = {Glass Phenomenology from the Connection to Spin Glasses},
  author = {M. Tarzia and M. A. Moore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0609113},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

revised version with extended discussion and new results, submitted to PRE