On the dynamics of the glass transition on Bethe lattices

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Abstract: The Glauber dynamics of disordered spin models with multi-spin interactions on sparse random graphs (Bethe lattices) is investigated. Such models undergo a dynamical glass transition upon decreasing the temperature or increasing the degree of constrainedness. Our analysis is based upon a detailed study of large scale rearrangements which control the slow dynamics of the system close to the dynamical transition. Particular attention is devoted to the neighborhood of a zero temperature tricritical point. Both the approach and several key results are conjectured to be valid in a considerably more general context.


The paper addresses the problem of dynamic phase transitions in a model of the Ising type, with interactions of \(p\) spins (\(p\geq 3\)) on random graphs (the model is also known as the Bethe lattice). It is found that, with the decrease of temperature or increase of the degree of constrainedness in the system, it undergoes a dynamic transition from an ergodic thermal state to one with broken ergodicity. In the latter (glassy) state, unlike the thermal one, the system's dynamics is dominated by activation processes. It is demonstrated that multi-point susceptibilities remain finite at the transition point, while the correlation length diverges as \((T-T_{\text{ cr}}) ^{-1/2}\). In the glassy state, correlations and response functions depending on an arbitrary number of scales are essential, while correlations in the thermal phase obey the usual mode-coupling theory. The analysis developed in the paper is based on a detailed study (by means of numerical methods) of large-scale configurations that control the dynamics close to the transition point. Special care is taken of the analysis of a tricritical point existing at \(T=0\). It is argued that the results reported in the paper may apply to the statistical mechanics of a broad class of random lattice systems.




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