Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 49, Number 2, January II 2000
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Page(s) | 162 - 168 | |
Section | General | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2000-00127-x | |
Published online | 01 September 2002 |
How to break the replica symmetry in structural glasses
1
Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung - Postfach 3148, D-55021 Mainz, Germany
2
Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Science
142432, Chernogolovka, Moscow region,
Russia
Corresponding authors: rostiash@mpip-mainz.mpg.de vilgis@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
Received:
8
July
1999
Accepted:
5
November
1999
The variational principle (VP) has been used to capture the metastable states of a glass-forming molecular system without quenched disorder. It has been shown that VP naturally leads to a self-consistent random field Ginzburg-Landau model (RFGLM). In the framework of one-step replica symmetry breaking (1-RSB) the general solution of RFGLM is discussed in the vicinity of the spinodal temperature in terms of “hidden” form factors , and . The self-generated disorder spontaneously arises. It is argued that at the activated dynamics is dominant.
PACS: 05.20.-y – Classical statistical mechanics / 61.43.-j – Disordered solids / 61.43.Fs – Glasses
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