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Off equilibrium fluctuations in a polymer glass
The fluctuation-dissipation relation (FDR) is measured on the dielectric
properties a polymer glass (polycarbonate). It is observed that the fluctuation
dissipation theorem is strongly violated for a quench from above to below the
glass transition temperature. The amplitude and the persistence time of this
violation are decreasing functions of frequency. Around it may persist
for several hours. The origin of this violation is a highly intermittent
dynamics characterized by large fluctuations a strongly non-Gaussian
statistics. The intermittent dynamics depends on the quenching rate and it
disappears after slow quenches. The relevance of these results for recent
models of aging are discussed.Comment: submitted to Physica
Off equilibrium dynamics in 2d-XY system
We study the non-equilibrium time evolution of the classical XY spin model in
two dimensions. The two-time autocorrelation and linear response functions are
considered for systems initially prepared in a high temperature state and in a
completely ordered state. After a quench into the critical phase, we determine,
via Monte Carlo simulations, the time-evolution of these quantities and extract
the temperature dependence of the slope of the parametric plot
susceptibility/correlation in the asymptotic regime. This slope is usually
identified with the infinite fluctuation-dissipation ratio which measures the
violation to the equilibrium fluctuation-dissipation theorem. However, a direct
measure of this ratio leads to a vanishing value
Scaling properties in off equilibrium dynamical processes
In the present paper, we analyze the consequences of scaling hypotheses on
dynamic functions, as two times correlations . We show, under general
conditions, that must obey the following scaling behavior , where the scaling variable is
and , two
undetermined functions. The presence of a non constant exponent
signals the appearance of multiscaling properties in the dynamics.Comment: 6 pages, no figure
Off equilibrium properties of vortex creep in superconductors
We study a model for the dynamics of vortices in type II superconductors. In
particular, we discuss glassy ``off equilibrium'' properties and ``aging'' in
magnetic creep. At low temperatures a crossover point is found, Tg, where
relaxation times seem to diverge a' la Vogel-Tamman-Fulcher. Magnetic creep
changes by crossing Tg: above Tg power law creep is found asymptotically
followed by stretched exponential saturation; below Tg the creep is logarithmic
and vortex motion strongly subdiffusive. In this region violation of time
translation invariance is found along with important dynamical scaling
properties. A thermodynamic glassy transition point can be found at a lower
temperature Tc.Comment: published versio
Off-equilibrium relaxational dynamics with improved Ising Hamiltonian
We study the off-equilibrium relaxational dynamics at criticality in the
three-dimensional Blume-Capel model whose static critical behaviour belongs to
the 3d-Ising universality class. Using "improved" Hamiltonian (the leading
corrections to scaling have vanishing amplitude) we perform Monte Carlo
simulations of the relaxational dynamics after a quench from to
. Analysing the off-equilibrium dynamics at we obtain an estimate of
the dynamical critical exponent that is perfectly consistent with
the Field Theory predictions.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures, references added, to appear in J. Stat. Mec
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