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Constructing Explicit Magnetic Analogies for the Dynamics of Glass Forming Liquids
The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Jacob D. Stevenson, Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
  • Aleksandra M. Walczak, Princeton Center for Theoretical Physics, Princeton University
  • Randall W. Hall, Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  • Peter G. Wolynes, Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2008
Disciplines
Department
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Abstract

By defining a spatially varying replica overlap parameter for a supercooled liquid referenced to an ensemble of fiducial liquid state configurations, we explicitly construct a constrained replica free energy functional that maps directly onto an Ising Hamiltonian with both random fields and random interactions whose statistics depend on the liquid structure. Renormalization group results for random magnets when combined with these statistics for the Lennard-Jones glass suggest that discontinuous replica symmetry breaking would occur if a liquid with short range interactions could be equilibrated at a sufficiently low temperature where its mean field configurational entropy would vanish, even though the system strictly retains a finite configurational entropy.

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Originally uploaded to arXiv on 10-4-2008 at href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/0806.4573v2.pd
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PubMed ID
19026064
Citation Information
Jacob D. Stevenson, Aleksandra M. Walczak, Randall W. Hall and Peter G. Wolynes. "Constructing Explicit Magnetic Analogies for the Dynamics of Glass Forming Liquids" The Journal of Chemical Physics Vol. 129 Iss. 19 (2008) ISSN: 0021-9606
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/randall_hall/66/