Phase transition for quenched coupled replicas in a plaquette spin model of glasses

We study a three-dimensional plaquette spin model whose low temperature dynamics is glassy, due to localized defects and effective kinetic constraints. The thermodynamics of this system is smooth at all temperatures. We show that coupling it to a second system with a fixed (quenched) configuration l...

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Main Authors: Jack, Robert L., Garrahan, Juan P.
Format: Article
Published: American Physical Society 2016
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34756/