1206.2585 (Mauro Sellitto)

Cooperative heterogeneous facilitation approach to arrested dynamics:
multiple glassy states and glass-glass transition    [PDF]

Mauro Sellitto

The formal structure of glass singularities in the mode-coupling theory (MCT) of supercooled liquids dynamics is closely related to that appearing in the analysis of heterogeneous bootstrap percolation on Bethe lattice, random graphs and complex networks. Starting from this observation one can build up microscopic on lattice realizations of schematic MCT based on cooperative facilitated spin mixtures. I discuss a microscopic implementation of the F13 schematic model including multiple glassy states and glass-glass transition. Our results suggest that the heterogeneous cooperative facilitation approach is flexible enough to bridge descriptions of glassy dynamics which were previously thought to be alternative.

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