One-dimensional Kac model of dense amorphous hard spheres

We introduce a new model of hard spheres under confinement for the study of the glass and jamming transitions. The model is an one-dimensional chain of the $d$-dimensional boxes each of which contains the same number of hard spheres, and the particles in the boxes of the ends of the chain are quenched at their equilibrium positions. We focus on the infinite dimensional limit ($d \to \infty$) of the model and analytically compute the glass transition densities using the replica liquid theory. From the chain length dependence of the transition densities, we extract the characteristic length scales at the glass transition. The divergence of the lengths are characterized by the two exponents, $-1/4$ for the dynamical transition and $-1$ for the ideal glass transition, which are consistent with those of the $p$-spin mean-field spin glass model. We also show that the model is useful for the study of the growing length scale at the jamming transition.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure

Effect of particle exchange on the glass transition of binary hard spheres

We investigate the replica theory of the liquid-glass transition for a binary mixture of large and small additive hard spheres. We consider two different ans\"atze for this problem: the frozen glass ansatz (FGA) in whichs the exchange of large and small particles in a glass state is prohibited, and the exchange glass ansatz (EGA), in which it is allowed. We calculate the dynamical and thermodynamical glass transition points with the two ans\"atze. We show that the dynamical transition density of the FGA is lower than that of the EGA, while the thermodynamical transition density of the FGA is higher than that of the EGA. We discuss the algorithmic implications of these results for the density-dependence of the relaxation time of supercooled liquids. We particularly emphasize the difference between the standard Monte Carlo and swap Monte Carlo algorithms. Furthermore, we discuss the importance of particle exchange for estimating the configurational entropy.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figure

Fredrickson-Andersen model on Bethe lattice with random pinning

We study the effects of random pinning on the Fredrickson-Andersen model on the Bethe lattice. We find that the nonergodic transition temperature rises as the fraction of the pinned spins increases and the transition line terminates at a critical point. The freezing behavior of the spins is analogous to that of a randomly pinned p-spin mean-field spin glass model which has been recently reported. The diverging behavior of correlation lengths in the vicinity of the terminal critical point is found to be identical to the prediction of the inhomogeneous mode-coupling theory at the A3 singularity point for the glass transition.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figure

Correlated Noise and Critical Dimensions

In equilibrium, the Mermin-Wagner theorem prohibits the continuous symmetry breaking for all dimensions $d\leq 2$. In this work, we discuss that this limitation can be circumvented in non-equilibrium systems driven by the spatio-temporally long-range anticorrelated noise. We first compute the lower and upper critical dimensions of the $\phi^4$ model driven by the spatio-temporally correlated noise by means of the dimensional analysis. Next, we consider the spherical model, which corresponds to the large $n$ limit of the $O(n)$ model and allows us to compute the critical dimensions and critical exponents, analytically. Both results suggest that the critical dimensions increase when the noise is positively correlated in space and time, and decrease when anticorrelated. We also report that the spherical model with the correlated noise shows the hyperuniformity and giant number fluctuation even well above the critical point.Comment: 7 page