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Cooperative heterogeneous facilitation: multiple glassy states and glass-glass transition
1Department of Information Engineering, Second University of Naples, I-81031 Aversa (CE), Italy.
Abstract:
The formal structure of glass singularities in the mode-coupling theory (MCT) of supercooled liquids dynamics is closely related to that appearing in the analysis of heterogeneous bootstrap percolation on Bethe lattices, random graphs, and complex networks. Starting from this observation one can build up microscopic on-lattice realizations of schematic MCT based on cooperative facilitated spin mixtures. I discuss a microscopic implementation of the F(13) schematic model including multiple glassy states and the glass-glass transition. Results suggest that our approach is flexible enough to bridge alternative theoretical descriptions of glassy matter based on the notions of quenched disorder and dynamic facilitation.
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