Glassy behavior in systems with Kac-type step-function interaction
Soft Condensed Matter
2016-08-16 v1
Abstract
We study a system with a weak, long-range repulsive Kac-type step-function interaction within the framework of a replicated effective -theory. The occurrence of extensive configurational entropy, or an exponentially large number of metastable minima in the free energy (characteristic of a glassy state), is demonstrated. The underlying mechanism of mesoscopic patterning and defect organizations is discussed.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0206494,
title = {Glassy behavior in systems with Kac-type step-function interaction},
author = {Kok-Kiong Loh and Kyozi Kawasaki and Alan R. Bishop and Turab Lookman and Avadh Saxena and Jörg Schmalian and Zohar Nussinov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0206494},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 eps figures, submitted to PRE rapid communications