Time Scales for transitions between free energy minima of a hard sphere system

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1996-01-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9601034v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

25 pages, Revtex, 6 postscript figures. Will appear in Phys Rev E, March 1996 or so

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.53.2603

Time scales associated with activated transitions between glassy metastable states of a free energy functional appropriate for a dense hard sphere system are calculated by using a new Monte Carlo method for the local density variables. We calculate the time the system,initially placed in a shallow glassy minimum of the free energy, spends in the neighborhood of this minimum before making a transition to the basin of attarction of another free energy minimum. This time scale is found to increase with the average density. We find a crossover density near which this time scale increases very sharply and becomes longer than the longest times accessible in our simulation. This scale shows no evidence of dependence on sample size.

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