Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
1999-09-21
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Revised version: treatment of `tapping' deferred
Scientific paper
10.1088/0953-8984/12/29/332
A scenario for systems with slow dynamics is characterised by stating that there are several temperatures coexisting in the sample, with a single temperature shared by all observables at each (widely separate) time-scale. In preparation for the study of granular rheology, we show within this framework that glassy systems with driving and friction that are generic and do not correspond to a thermal bath --- and whose microscopic `fast' motion is hence not thermal --- have a well-defined macroscopic temperature associated to the slow degrees of freedom. This temperature is what a thermometer coupled to the system will measure if tuned to respond to low frequencies, and since it can be related to the number of stationary configurations, it is the formalisation of Edwards' `compactivity' ideas.
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