Tuesday, October 23, 2012

1210.5952 (Silvio Franz et al.)

Finite-size critical fluctuations in microscopic models of mode-coupling
theory
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Silvio Franz, Mauro Sellitto
Facilitated spin models on random graphs provide an ideal microscopic realization of the mode-coupling theory of supercooled liquids: they undergo a purely dynamic glass transition with no thermodynamic singularity. In this paper we study the fluctuations of dynamical heterogeneity and their finite-size scaling properties in the beta-relaxation regime of such microscopic spin models. We compare the critical fluctuations behavior for two distinct measures of correlations with the results of a recently proposed field theoretical description based on quasi-equilibrium ideas. We find that the theoretical predictions perfectly fit the numerical simulation data once the relevant order parameter is identified with the persistence function of the spins.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5952

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