| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 73, Number 4, February 2006
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| Page(s) | 492 - 498 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2005-10420-8 | |
| Published online | 06 January 2006 | |
Metastable states, relaxation times and free-energy barriers in finite-dimensional glassy systems
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Strada Costiera 11, P.O. Box 586, I-34100 Trieste, Italy
Received:
12
October
2005
Accepted:
12
December
2005
In this letter we discuss metastability in a long-but-finite range disordered model for the glass transition. We show that relaxation is dominated by configuration belonging to metastable states and associate an in-principle computable free-energy barrier to the equilibrium relaxation time. Adam-Gibbs-like relaxation times appear naturally in this approach.
PACS: 05.20.-y – Classical statistical mechanics / 75.10.Nr – Spin-glass and other random models
© EDP Sciences, 2006
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