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Microscopic models of mode-coupling theory: The Fsub 12 scenario

, und . The Journal of Chemical Physics, 137 (8): 084501+ (27.06.2012)
DOI: 10.1063/1.4746695

Zusammenfassung

We provide extended evidence that mode-coupling theory (MCT) of supercooled liquids for the \$F\_12\$ schematic model admits a microscopic realization based on facilitated spin models with tunable facilitation. Depending on the facilitation strength, one observes two distinct dynamic glass transition lines--continuous and discontinuous--merging at a dynamical tricritical-like point with critical decay exponents consistently related by MCT predictions. The mechanisms of dynamical arrest can be naturally interpreted in geometrical terms: the discontinuous and continuous transitions correspond to bootstrap and standard percolation processes, in which the incipient spanning cluster of frozen spins forms either a compact or a fractal structure, respectively. Our cooperative dynamic facilitation picture of glassy behavior is complementary to the one based on disordered systems and can account for higher-order singularity scenarios in the absence of a finite temperature thermodynamic glass transition. We briefly comment on the relevance of our results to finite spatial dimensions and to the \$F\_13\$ schematic model.

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