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arxiv: cond-mat/9911280 · v2 · submitted 1999-11-18 · ❄️ cond-mat.dis-nn

How to break the replica symmetry in structural glasses

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keywords beendisorderreplicarfglmsymmetryactivatedarguedarises
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The variational principle (VP) has been used to capture the metastable states of a glass-forming molecular system without quenched disorder. It has been shown that VP naturally leads to a self-consistent random field Ginzburg-Landau model (RFGLM). In the framework of one-step replica symmetry breaking (1-RSB) the general solution of RFGLM is discussed in the vicinity of the spinodal temperature T_{A} in terms of ``hidden'' formfactors $\tilde g(k)$, g_{0}(k) and $\Delta(k)$. The self-generated disorder spontaneously arises. It is argued that at T < T_{A} the activated dynamics is dominant.

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