Mode-Coupling Theory as a Mean-Field Description of the Glass Transition

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2010-03-29

arxiv.org/abs/1003.5472v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 255704 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

5 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett.: Typos have been corrected

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Mode-coupling theory (MCT) is conjectured to be a mean-field description of dynamics of the structural glass transition and the replica theory to be its thermodynamic counterpart. However, the relationship between the two theories remains controversial and quantitative comparison is lacking. In this Letter, we investigate MCT for monatomic hard sphere fluids at arbitrary dimensions above three and compare the results with replica theory. We find grave discrepancies between the predictions of two theories. While MCT describes the nonergodic parameter quantitatively better than the replica theory in three dimension, it predicts a completely different dimension dependence of the dynamical transition point. We find it to be due to the pathological behavior of the nonergodic parameters derived from MCT, which exhibit negative tails in real space at high dimensions.

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