Glassy states in lattice models with many coexisting crystalline phases
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We study the emergence of glassy states after a sudden cooling in lattice models with short range interactions and without any a priori quenched disorder. The glassy state emerges whenever the equilibrium model possesses a sufficient number of coexisting crystalline phases at low temperatures, provided the thermodynamic limit be taken before the infinite time limit. This result is obtained through simulations of the time relaxation of the standard Potts model and some exclusion models equipped with a local stochastic dynamics on a square lattice.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0312580,
title = {Glassy states in lattice models with many coexisting crystalline phases},
author = {M. J. de Oliveira and A. Petri and T. Tome},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0312580},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, 4 figures