How glasses explore configuration space
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-07 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Abstract
We review a statistical picture of the glassy state derived from the analysis of the off-equilibrium fluctuation-dissipation relations. We define an ultra-long time limit where ``one time quantities'' are close to equilibrium while response and correlation can still display aging. In this limit it is possible to relate the fluctuation-response relation to static breaking of ergodicity. The resulting picture suggests that even far from that limit, the fluctuation-dissipation ratio relates to the rate of growth of the configurational entropy with free-energy density.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0212091,
title = {How glasses explore configuration space},
author = {Silvio Franz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0212091},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
To appear in the proceedings of the "3rd workshop on non-equilibrium phenomena in supercooled fluids, glasses and amorphous materials" Pisa 22-27 September 2002