arXiv · cond-mat/0501192
Subdiffusion and dynamical heterogeneities in a lattice glass model
Abstract
We study a kinetically constrained lattice glass model in which continuous local densities are randomly redistributed on neighbouring sites with a kinetic constraint that inhibits the process at high densities, and a random bias accounting for attractive or repulsive interactions. The full steady-state distribution can be computed exactly in any space dimension d. Dynamical heterogeneities are characterized by a length scale that diverges when approaching the critical density. The glassy dynamics of the model can be described as a reaction-diffusion process for the mobile regions. The motion of mobile regions is found to be subdiffusive, for a large range of parameters, due to a self-induced trapping mechanism.
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Eric Bertin, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Francois Lequeux. 2005-07-19. Subdiffusion and dynamical heterogeneities in a lattice glass model. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.95.015702
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