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arxiv: cond-mat/9503166 · v1 · submitted 1995-03-31 · ❄️ cond-mat

The structural glass transition and the entropy of the metastable states

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The metastable states of a glass are counted by adding a weak pinning field which explicitly breaks the ergodicity. Their entropy, that is the logarithm of their number, is extensive in a range of temperatures $T_G < T < T_C$ only, where $T_G$ and $T_C$ correspond to the ideal calorimetric and kinetic glass transition temperatures respectively. An explicit self-consistent computation of the metastable states entropy for a non disordered model is given.

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