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Memory effects in classical and quantum mean-field disordered models
We apply the Kovacs experimental protocol to classical and quantum p-spin
models. We show that these models have memory effects as those observed
experimentally in super-cooled polymer melts. We discuss our results in
connection to other classical models that capture memory effects. We propose
that a similar protocol applied to quantum glassy systems might be useful to
understand their dynamics.Comment: 24 pages, 12 figure
A simple system with two temperatures
We study the stationary nonequilibrium regime which settles in when two
single-spin paramagnets each in contact with its own thermal bath are coupled.
The response vs. correlation plot exhibits some features of aging systems, in
particular the existence, in some regimes, of effective temperatures.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure
Monte-Carlo simulations of the violation of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem in domain growth processes
Numerical simulations of various domain growth systems are reported, in order
to compute the parameter describing the violation of fluctuation dissipation
theorem (FDT) in aging phenomena. We compute two-times correlation and response
functions and find that, as expected from the exact solution of a certain
mean-field model (equivalent to the O(N) model in three dimensions, in the
limit of N going to infinity), this parameter is equal to one (no violation of
FDT) in the quasi-equilibrium regime (short separation of times), and zero in
the aging regime.Comment: 5 pages, 5 eps figure
Thermal properties of slow dynamics
The limit of small entropy production is reached in relaxing systems long
after preparation, and in stationary driven systems in the limit of small
driving power. Surprisingly, for extended systems this limit is not in general
the Gibbs-Boltzmann distribution, or a small departure from it. Interesting
cases in which it is not are glasses, phase-separation, and certain driven
complex fluids.
We describe a scenario with several coexisting temperatures acting on
different timescales, and partial equilibrations at each time scale. This
scenario entails strong modifications of the fluctuation-dissipation equalities
and the existence of some unexpected reciprocity relations. Both predictions
are open to experimental verification, particularly the latter.
The construction is consistent in general, since it can be viewed as the
breaking of a symmetry down to a residual group. It does not assume the
presence of quenched disorder. It can be -- and to a certain extent has been --
tested numerically, while some experiments are on their way. There is
furthermore the perspective that analytic arguments may be constructed to prove
or disprove its generality.Comment: 11 pages, invited talk to be presented at STATPHYS 20, Pari
Out of equilibrium dynamics of classical and quantum complex systems
Equilibrium is a rather ideal situation, the exception rather than the rule
in Nature. Whenever the external or internal parameters of a physical system
are varied its subsequent relaxation to equilibrium may be either impossible or
take very long times. From the point of view of fundamental physics no generic
principle such as the ones of thermodynamics allows us to fully understand
their behaviour. The alternative is to treat each case separately. It is
illusionary to attempt to give, at least at this stage, a complete description
of all non-equilibrium situations. Still, one can try to identify and
characterise some concrete but still general features of a class of out of
equilibrium problems - yet to be identified - and search for a unified
description of these. In this report I briefly describe the behaviour and
theory of a set of non-equilibrium systems and I try to highlight common
features and some general laws that have emerged in recent years.Comment: 36 pages, to be published in Compte Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences,
T. Giamarchi e
Effective temperatures out of equilibrium
We describe some interesting effects observed during the evolution of
nonequilibrium systems, using domain growth and glassy systems as examples. We
breafly discuss the analytical tools that have been recently used to study the
dynamics of these systems. We mainly concentrate on one of the results obtained
from this study, the violation of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem and we
discuss, in particular, its relation to the definition and measurement of
effective temperatures out of equilibrium.Comment: 13 pages, RevTex, 2 figs, to appear in ``Trends in Theoretical
Physics II'', eds. H Falomir et al, Am. Inst. Phys. Conf. Proc. of the 1998
Buenos Aires meetin
Slow nonequilibrium dynamics: parallels between classical and quantum glasses and gently driven systems
We review an scenario for the non-equilibrium dynamics of glassy systems that
has been motivated by the exact solution of simple models. This approach allows
one to set on firmer grounds well-known phenomenological theories. The old
ideas of entropy crisis, fictive temperatures, free-volume... have clear
definitions within these models. Aging effects in the glass phase are also
captured. One of the salient features of the analytic solution, the breakdown
of the fluctuation-dissipation relations, provides a definition of a bonafide
{\it effective temperature} that is measurable by a thermometer, controls heat
flows, partial equilibrations, and the reaction to the external injection of
heat. The effective temperature is an extremely robust concept that appears in
non-equilibrium systems in the limit of small entropy production as, for
instance, sheared fluids, glasses at low temperatures when quantum fluctuations
are relevant, tapped or vibrated granular matter, etc. The emerging scenario is
one of partial equilibrations, in which glassy systems arrange their internal
degrees of freedom so that the slow ones select their own effective
temperatures. It has been proven to be consistent within any perturbative
resummation scheme (mode coupling, etc) and it can be challenged by
experimental and numerical tests, some of which it has already passed.Comment: 15 pages, 8 figure
Out-of-equilibrium thermodynamic relations in systems with aging and slow relaxation
The experimental time scale dependence of thermodynamic relations in
out-of-equilibrium systems with aging phenomena is investigated theoretically
by using only aging properties of the two-time correlation functions and the
generalized fluctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT). We show that there are two
experimental time regimes characterized by different thermal properties. In the
first regime where the waiting time is much longer than the measurement time,
the principle of minimum work holds even though a system is out of equilibrium.
In the second regime where both the measurement time and the waiting time are
long, the thermal properties are completely different from properties in
equilibrium. For the single-correlation-scale systems such as -spin
spherical spin-glasses, contrary to a fundamental assumption of thermodynamics,
the work done in an infinitely slow operation depends on the path of change of
the external field even when the waiting time is infinite. On the other hand,
for the multi-correlation-scale systems such as Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model,
the work done in an infinitely slow operation is independent of the path. Our
results imply that in order to describe thermodynamic properties of systems
with aging it is essential to consider the experimental time scales and history
of a system as a state variable is necessary.Comment: 28 pages(REVTeX), 4 figure(EPS). To be published in Phys. Rev.
Anomalous diffusion of a particle in an aging medium
We report new results about the anomalous diffusion of a particle in an aging
medium. For each given age, the quasi-stationary particle velocity is governed
by a generalized Langevin equation with a frequency-dependent friction
coefficient proportional to at small frequencies, with
. The aging properties of the medium are encoded in a frequency
dependent effective temperature . The latter is modelized
by a function proportional to at small frequencies, with
, thus allowing for the medium to have a density of slow modes
proportionally larger than in a thermal bath. Using asymptotic Fourier
analysis, we obtain the behaviour at large times of the velocity correlation
function and of the mean square displacement. As a result, the anomalous
diffusion exponent in the aging medium appears to be linked, not only to
as it would be the case in a thermal bath, but also to the exponent
characterizing the density of slow modes
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