| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 71, Number 3, August 2005
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 452 - 458 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2004-10546-1 | |
| Published online | 13 July 2005 | |
Real-space analysis of inherent structures
Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland and SPEC, CEA Saclay - F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
Received:
26
October
2004
Accepted:
8
June
2005
We study a generalization of the one-dimensional disordered Potts model, which exhibits glassy properties at low temperature. The real-space properties of inherent structures visited dynamically are analyzed through a decomposition into domains over which the energy is minimized. The size of these domains is distributed exponentially, defining a characteristic length scale which grows in equilibrium when lowering temperature, as well as in the aging regime at a given temperature. In the low-temperature limit, this length can be interpreted as the distance between “excited” domains within the inherent structures.
PACS: 75.10.Nr – Spin-glass and other random models / 02.50-r – Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics / 64.70.Pf – Glass transitions
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