Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2010-04-09
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 43, 345002 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
8 pages, to appear in J. Phys. A
Scientific paper
10.1088/1751-8113/43/34/345002
Entropic aging consists in a progressive slowing down of the low-temperature dynamics of a glassy system due to the rarefaction of downwards directions on the energy landscape, as lower and lower energy levels are reached. A prototypical model exhibiting this scenario is the Barrat-M\'ezard model. We argue that in the zero-temperature limit, this model precisely corresponds to a dynamical realization of extreme value statistics, providing an interesting connection between the two fields. This mapping directly yields the long-time asymptotic shape of the dynamical energy distribution, which is then one of the standard extreme value distributions (Gumbel, Weibull or Fr\'echet), thus restricting the class of asymptotic energy distributions with respect to the original preasymptotic results. We also briefly discuss similarities and differences between the Barrat-M\'ezard model and undriven dissipative systems like granular gases.
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