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Dynamical heterogeneities in irreversible gels: analogy with spin glasses
A Fierro1, T Abete, A de Candia
1INFM-CNR Coherentia, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II', Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, Via Cintia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy. Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II', Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, via Cintia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy.
Abstract:
We describe the sol-gel transition by introducing an order parameter, defined as the average of local variables, and its fluctuations. It can be shown that these quantities are related to percolation quantities, but in principle they can be measured without resorting to connectivity properties. In this framework it appears that the dynamical transition associated with gelation is a real thermodynamic transition, as happens in spin glasses. The strong analogies between the sol-gel transition and the spin glass transition are also discussed.
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