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The standard model of glasses is an ensemble of two-level systems interacting with a thermal bath. The general origin of memory effects in this model is a quasi-stationary but non-equilibrium state of a single two-level system, which is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Gerardo Aquino , Armen Allahverdyan , Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen

In this note we revisit the Kovacs effect, concerning the way in which the volume of a glass-forming liquid, which has been driven out of equilibrium, changes with time while the system evolves towards a metastable state. The theoret- ical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-16 F. Aliotta , R. C. Ponterio , F. Saija , P. V. Giaquinta

The Kovacs protocol, based on the temperature shift experiment originally conceived by A.J. Kovacs for glassy polymers, is implemented in an exactly solvable dynamical model. This model is characterized by interacting fast and slow modes…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Gerardo Aquino , Luca Leuzzi , Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen

The Kovacs protocol, based on the temperature shift experiment originally conceived by A.J. Kovacs and applied on glassy polymers, is implemented in an exactly solvable model with facilitated dynamics. This model is based on interacting…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Gerardo Aquino , Luca Leuzzi , Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen

A gas of particles which collide inelastically if their impact velocity exceeds a certain value is investigated. In difference to common granular gases, cluster formation occurs only as a transient phenomenon. We calculate the decay of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Thorsten Poeschel , Nikolai V. Brilliantov , Thomas Schwager

We present a thermodynamic theory of the Kovacs effect based on the idea that the configurational degrees of freedom of a glass-forming material are driven out of equilibrium with the heat bath by irreversible thermal contraction and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-14 Eran Bouchbinder , J. S. Langer

We observe non-monotonic aging and memory effects, two hallmarks of glassy dynamics, in two disordered mechanical systems: crumpled thin sheets and elastic foams. Under fixed compression, both systems exhibit monotonic non-exponential…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-14 Yoav Lahini , Omer Gottesman , Ariel Amir , Shmuel M. Rubinstein

The Mpemba and Kovacs effects are two notable memory phenomena observed in nonequilibrium relaxation processes. In a recent study [Phys.~Rev.~E \textbf{109}, 044149 (2024)], these effects were analyzed within the framework of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-13 Andrés Santos

The relaxation of stochastic systems after sudden perturbations is constrained by speed limits and often reveals memory effects that hinder attempts to accelerate their dynamics. Here we demonstrate Kovacs-type nonmonotonic relaxation in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-16 Miguel Ibáñez , Raúl A. Rica-Alarcón , María L. Jiménez

Control of cooling and heating processes is essential in many industrial and biological processes. In fact, the time evolution of an observable quantity may differ according to the previous history of the system. For example, a system that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-12 Antonio Lasanta , Francisco Vega Reyes , Antonio Prados , Andrés Santos

Protocol-dependent states in structural glasses can encode a disordered, yet retrievable memory. While training such materials is typically done via a global drive, such as external shear, in dense active matter the driving is instead local…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-05 Elisabeth Agoritsas , Peter K. Morse

We study a dilute granular gas immersed in a thermal bath made of smaller particles with masses not much smaller than the granular ones in this work. Granular particles are assumed to have inelastic and hard interactions, losing energy in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-12 Alberto Megías , Andrés Santos

Granular matter under rapid flow conditions can be modeled as a granular gas, namely, a gas of hard spheres dissipating part of their kinetic energy during binary collisions (inelastic hard spheres, IHS). On the other hand, given that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-28 Moisés G. Chamorro

We study by means of molecular dynamics simulations the aging behavior of a molecular model of ortho-terphenyl. We find evidence of a a non-monotonic evolution of the volume during an isothermal-isobaric equilibration process, a phenomenon…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Mossa , F. Sciortino

We present experimental results that demonstrate a glassy behavior in the conductance of quench condensed insulating granular metals that is different from that observed in continuous disordered systems. Exciting the granular system by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Kurzweil , A. Frydman

The statistical-physical study of granular matter is essential to understand, from a fundamental point of view, the many different phenomena emerging in these classical many-body systems. Under rapid-flow conditions, granular materials…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-23 Alberto Megías

We report an experimental investigation of the caging motion in a uniformly heated granular fluid, for a wide range of filling fractions, $\phi$. At low $\phi$ the classic diffusive behavior of a fluid is observed. However, as $\phi$ is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Pedro M. Reis , Rohit A. Ingale , Mark D. Shattuck

Materials driven far from equilibrium can encode memories of past deformations through long-lived structural reorganisations. Such memory effects-reflecting parameters such as deformation direction, magnitude, and duration have been widely…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-16 Abhishek Ghadai , Sayantan Majumdar

Driven granular systems readily form glassy phases at high particle volume fractions and low driving amplitudes. We use computer simulations of a driven granular glass to evidence a re-entrance melting transition into a fluid state, which,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-19 Jan Plagge , Claus Heussinger

We study fluidized granular gases in a stationary state determined by the balance between an external driving and the bulk dissipation. The two considered situations are inspired by recent experiments, where the gravity plays a major role…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Baldassarri , U. Marini Bettolo Marconi , A. Puglisi , A. Vulpiani