Phase diagram of glassy systems in an external field
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-30 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Abstract
We study the mean-field phase diagram of glassy systems in a field pointing in the direction of a metastable state. We find competition among a ``magnetized'' and a ``disordered'' phase, that are separated by a coexistence line as in ordinary first order phase transitions. The coexistence line terminates in a critical point, which in principle can be observed in numerical simulations of glassy models.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9701033,
title = {Phase diagram of glassy systems in an external field},
author = {Silvio Franz and Giorgio Parisi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9701033},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 5 figures