Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2000-04-27
Phys.Rev.E 62, 3404 (2000)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
7 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.62.3404
Using Monte Carlo simulations we study the dynamics of three-dimensional Ising models with nearest-, next-nearest-, and four-spin (plaquette) interactions. During coarsening, such models develop growing energy barriers, which leads to very slow dynamics at low temperature. As already reported, the model with only the plaquette interaction exhibits some of the features characteristic of ordinary glasses: strong metastability of the supercooled liquid, a weak increase of the characteristic length under cooling, stretched-exponential relaxation and aging. The addition of two-spin interactions, in general, destroys such behaviour: the liquid phase loses metastability and the slow-dynamics regime terminates well below the melting transition, which is presumably related with a certain corner-rounding transition. However, for a particular choice of interaction constants, when the ground state is strongly degenerate, our simulations suggest that the slow-dynamics regime extends up to the melting transition. The analysis of these models leads us to the conjecture that in the four-spin Ising model domain walls lose their tension at the glassy transition and that they are basically tensionless in the glassy phase.
Espriu Domenec
Johnston David
Lipowski Adam
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