Memory effects in the relaxation of the Gaussian trap model

Details Memory effects in the relaxation of the Gaussian trap model Memory effects in the relaxation of the Gaussian trap model

2011-02-02

arxiv.org/abs/1102.0411v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

16 pages, 13 figures

Scientific paper

We investigate the memory effect in a simple model for glassy relaxation, a trap model with a Gaussian density of states. In this model thermal equilibrium is reached at all finite temperatures and therefore we can consider jumps from low to high temperatures in addition to the quenches usually considered in aging studies. We show that the evolution of the energy following the Kovacs-protocol can approximately be expressed as a difference of two monotonously decaying functions and thus show the existence of a so-called Kovacs hump whenever these functions are not single exponentials. It is well established that the Kovacs effect also occurs in the linear response regime and we show that most of the gross features do not change dramatically when large temperature jumps are considered. However, there is one distinguishing feature that only exists beyond the linear regime which we discuss in detail. For the memory experiment with 'inverted' temperatures, i.e. jumping up and then down again, we find a very similar behavior apart from an opposite sign of the hump.

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