Thermodynamics of the glassy state
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2009-10-31 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
A picture for thermodynamics of the glassy state is introduced. It assumes that one extra parameter, the effective temperature, is needed to describe the glassy state. This explains the classical paradoxes concerning the Ehrenfest relations and the Prigogine-Defay ratio. As a second part, the approach connects the response of macroscopic observables to a field change with their temporal fluctuations, and with the fluctuation-dissipation relation, in a generalized non-equilibrium way.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9811390,
title = {Thermodynamics of the glassy state},
author = {Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9811390},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, including 2 figures. To appear in: 8th Tohwa University Int'l Symposium on Slow Dynamics in Complex Systems