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Geometrical explanation and scaling of dynamical heterogeneities in glass forming systems
Juan P Garrahan1, David Chandler
1Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
We show how dynamical heterogeneities in glass forming systems emerge as a consequence of the existence of dynamical constraints, and we offer an interpretation of the glass transition as an entropy crisis in trajectory space (space-time) rather than in configuration space. To illustrate our general ideas, we analyze the one-dimensional (d = 1) Fredrickson-Andersen and East models. Dynamics of such dynamically constrained systems are shown to be isomorphic to the statics of ( d + 1)-dimensional dense mixtures of polydisperse noninterpenetrating domains. The domains coincide with arrested regions in trajectory space.
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