Active cage model of glassy dynamics

作者:Fodor Etienne; Hayakawa Hisao; Visco Paolo; van Wijland Frederic
来源:Physical Review E, 2016, 94(1): 012610.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.94.012610

摘要

We build up a phenomenological picture in terms of the effective dynamics of a tracer confined in a cage experiencing random hops to capture some characteristics of glassy systems. This minimal description exhibits scale invariance properties for the small-displacement distribution that echo experimental observations. We predict the existence of exponential tails as a crossover between two Gaussian regimes. Moreover, we demonstrate that the onset of glassy behavior is controlled only by two dimensionless numbers: the number of hops occurring during the relaxation of the particle within a local cage and the ratio of the hopping length to the cage size.

  • 出版日期2016-7-12