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Is there a fractional breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein relation in Kinetically Constrained Models at low temperature?

Statistical Mechanics 2015-06-16 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the motion of a tracer particle injected in facilitated models which are used to model supercooled liquids in the vicinity of the glass transition. We consider the East model, FA1f model and a more general class of non-cooperative models. For East previous works had identified a fractional violation of the Stokes-Einstein relation with a decoupling between diffusion and viscosity of the form DτξD\sim\tau^{-\xi} with ξ0.73\xi\sim 0.73. We present rigorous results proving that instead log(D)=log(τ)+O(log(1/q))\log(D)=-\log(\tau)+O(\log(1/q)), which implies at leading order log(D)/log(τ)1\log(D)/\log(\tau)\sim -1 for very large time-scales. Our results do not exclude the possibility of SE breakdown, albeit non fractional. Indeed extended numerical simulations by other authors show the occurrence of this violation and our result suggests Dτ1/qαD\tau\sim 1/q^\alpha, where qq is the density of excitations. For FA1f we prove fractional Stokes Einstein in dimension 11, and Dτ1D\sim\tau^{-1} in dimension 22 and higher, confirming previous works. Our results extend to a larger class of non-cooperative models.

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@article{arxiv.1307.1651,
  title  = {Is there a fractional breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein relation in Kinetically Constrained Models at low temperature?},
  author = {Oriane Blondel and Cristina Toninelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.1651},
  year   = {2015}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures; v2: revised version, to appear in EPL