Published March 11, 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

A dynamic mean-field glass model with reversible mode coupling and a trivial Hamiltonian

  • 1. CNLS, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  • 2. Physics Department, Changwon National University, Changwon (Korea, Republic of)

Description

Often the current mode coupling theory (MCT) of glass transitions is compared with mean field theories. We explore this possible correspondence. After showing a simple-minded derivation of MCT with some difficulties we give a concise account of our toy model developed to gain more insight into MCT. We then reduce this toy model by adiabatically eliminating rapidly varying velocity-like variables to obtain a Fokker-Planck equation for the slowly varying density-like variables where the diffusion matrix can be singular. This gives room for non-ergodic stationary solutions of the above equation. (author)

Availability note (English)

Available online at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter (ISSN 1361-6448X) http://www.iop.org/

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
14
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 2265-2273
ISSN
0953-8984

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
33029932
Subject category
S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
Descriptors DEI
COUPLING; DIFFUSION; FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION; GLASS; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRICES; MEAN-FIELD THEORY
Descriptors DEC
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; QUANTUM OPERATORS