Broad relaxation spectrum and the field theory of glassy dynamics for pinned elastic systems

Details Broad relaxation spectrum and the field theory of glassy dynamics for pinned elastic systems Broad relaxation spectrum and the field theory of glassy dynamics for pinned elastic systems

2003-12-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312338v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.69.061107

We study thermally activated, low temperature equilibrium dynamics of elastic systems pinned by disorder using one loop functional renormalization group (FRG). Through a series of increasingly complete approximations, we investigate how the field theory reveals the glassy nature of the dynamics, in particular divergent barriers and barrier distributions controling the spectrum of relaxation times. A naive single relaxation time approximation for each wavevector is found to be unsatisfactory. A second approximation based on a random friction model, yields a size (L) dependent log-normal distribution of relaxation times (mean barriers ~L^\theta and variance ~ L^{\theta/2}) and a procedure to estimate dynamical scaling functions. Finally, we study the full structure of the running dynamical effective action within the field theory. We find that relaxation time distributions are non-trivial (broad but not log-normal) and encoded in a closed hierarchy of FRG equations. A thermal boundary layer ansatz (TBLA) appears as a consistent solution. It extends the one discovered in the statics which was shown to embody droplet thermal fluctuations. Although perturbative control remains a challenge, the structure of the dynamical TBLA which encodes barrier distributions opens the way for deeper understanding of the field theory approach to glasses.

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