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Glassiness through the emergence of effective dynamical constraints in interacting systems

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-07 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

I describe a class of spin models with short--range plaquette interactions whose static equilibrium properties are trivial but which display glassy dynamics at low temperatures. These models have a dual description in terms of free defects subject to effective kinetic constraints, and are thus an explicit realization of the constrained dynamics picture of glassy systems.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0110151,
  title  = {Glassiness through the emergence of effective dynamical constraints in interacting systems},
  author = {Juan P. Garrahan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0110151},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Invited talk at ESF SPHINX meeting `Glassy behaviour of kinetically constrained models' (Barcelona, March 2001). To appear in J. Phys. Condens. Matter