Finite-temperature critical point of a glass transition

Details Finite-temperature critical point of a glass transition Finite-temperature critical point of a glass transition

2010-03-16

arxiv.org/abs/1003.3161v1

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107, 12793 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

10 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1073/pnas.1006306107

We generalize the simplest kinetically constrained model of a glass-forming liquid by softening kinetic constraints, allowing them to be violated with a small finite rate. We demonstrate that this model supports a first-order dynamical (space-time) phase transition, similar to those observed with hard constraints. In addition, we find that the first-order phase boundary in this softened model ends in a finite-temperature dynamical critical point, which we expect to be present in natural systems. We discuss links between this critical point and quantum phase transitions, showing that dynamical phase transitions in $d$ dimensions map to quantum transitions in the same dimension, and hence to classical thermodynamic phase transitions in $d+1$ dimensions. We make these links explicit through exact mappings between master operators, transfer matrices, and Hamiltonians for quantum spin chains.

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