Ageing and the glass transition. Invited lectures given at the summer school, Luxemburg, September 2005

DOI10.1007/3-540-69684-9zbMATH Open1151.82002arXivcond-mat/0603583OpenAlexW3098110592MaRDI QIDQ958477FDOQ958477

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Publication date: 5 December 2008

Published in: Lecture Notes in Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we review the general features of the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of spin glasses. We use this example as a guideline for a brief description of glassy dynamics in other disordered systems like structural and polymer glasses, colloids, gels etc. Starting with the simplest experiments, we discuss the scaling laws used to describe the isothermal aging observed in spin glasses after a quench down to the low temperature phase (these scaling laws are the same as established for polymer glasses). We then discuss the rejuvenation and memory effects observed when a spin glass is submitted to temperature variations during aging, and show some examples of similar phenomena in other glassy systems. The rejuvenation and memory effects and their implications are analyzed from the point of view of both energy landscape pictures and of real space pictures. We highlight the fact that both approaches point out the necessity of hierarchical processes involved in aging. We introduce the concept of a slowly growing and strongly temperature dependent dynamical correlation length, which is discussed at the light of a large panel of experiments.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0603583

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to statistics (62-06) Proceedings of conferences of miscellaneous specific interest (00B25) Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to probability theory (60-06) Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-06)

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