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Theory of glass transition in spin glasses, orientational glasses and structural glasses

Kurt Binder

subject

Condensed Matter::Soft Condensed MatterMaterials scienceSpin glassCondensed matter physicsLattice (order)Monte Carlo methodIsotropyConfiguration entropyOrder and disorderAnisotropyGlass transitionCondensed Matter::Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

description

Theoretical concepts about the glass transition are briefly reviewed, and the test of these ideas by Monte Carlo simulations of simple lattice models is described, with an emphasis on isotropic and anisotropic orientational glasses, and the bond fluctuation model of polymer melts. It is suggested that orientational glasses do have an equilibrium phase transition at zero temperature (in d = 3 dimensions!) only, in contrast to the Ising spin glass which orders at nonzero temperature. A diverging glass correlation length is identified that is responsible for the anomalous slowing down. For the Potts glass, the divergence seems to be exponential, implying that the model is at its lower critical dimensionality.

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2008-04-06
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-59158-3_40