Theoretical Models of Cooperative Dynamics Near the Glass Transition

1990 ◽  
Vol 215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josef Jäckle

AbstractIt is shown that diffusion in the hard-square and hard-octahedron lattice gases at high particle concentration has cooperative properties resembling molecular relaxation in undercooled liquids near the glass transition. For these models a characteristic length of cooperativity is introduced by an underlying percolation problem, which determines whether permanently blocked particles exist in lattices of finite size. The percolation problem belongs to a general class of bootstrap percolation models. Salient Monte Carlo results for the concentration and size dependence of self diffusion in the hard-square lattice gas are presented. Similarities with the n-spin facilitated kinetic Ising models are also pointed out.

Fractals ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 01 (04) ◽  
pp. 954-958 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. SZABÓ ◽  
A. SZOLNOKI ◽  
T. ANTAL ◽  
I. BORSOS

In driven lattice-gas models, the enhanced material transport along the interfaces results in an instability of the planar interfaces and leads to the formation of multistrip states. To study the interfacial instability, Monte Carlo simulations are performed on different square lattice-gas models. The amplification rate of a periodic perturbation depends on the wave number k; it has a positive maximum at a characteristic value of k on the analogy of the Mullins-Sekerka instability. Significant differences have been found in the dependence of amplification rate on k when comparing the systems with nearest neighbor repulsive and nearest and next-nearest neighbor attractive interactions. The results agree qualitatively with theories neglecting the fluctuations.


2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 1425-1438 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. SOLAK ◽  
B. KUTLU

The two-dimensional BEG model with nearest neighbor bilinear and positive biquadratic interaction is simulated on a cellular automaton, which is based on the Creutz cellular automaton for square lattice. Phase diagrams characterizing phase transitions of the model are presented for comparison with those obtained from other calculations. We confirm the existence of the tricritical points over the phase boundary for D/K>0. The values of static critical exponents (α, β, γ and ν) are estimated within the framework of the finite size scaling theory along D/K=-1 and 1 lines. The results are compatible with the universal Ising critical behavior except the points over phase boundary.


1999 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 517-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
SYNGE TODO

A singularity on the negative-fugacity axis of the hard-core lattice gas is investigated in terms of numerical diagonalization of large-scale transfer matrices. For the hard-square lattice gas, the location of the singular point [Formula: see text] and the critical exponent ν are accurately determined by the phenomenological renormalization technique as -0.11933888188(1) and 0.416667(1), respectively. It is also found that the central charge c and the dominant scaling dimension xσ are -4.399996(8) and -0.3999996(7), respectively. Similar analyses for other hard-core lattice-gas models in two dimensions are also performed, and it is confirmed that the universality between these models does hold. These results strongly indicate that the present singularity belongs to the same universality class as the Yang–Lee edge singularity.


1993 ◽  
Vol 321 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Li ◽  
W. L. Johnson ◽  
W. A. Goddard

ABSTRACTThermodynamic properties, structures, defects and their configurations of a two-dimensional Lennard-Jones (LJ) system are investigated close to crystal to glass transition (CGT) via molecular dynamics simulations. The CGT is achieved by saturating the LJ binary arrays below glass transition temperature with one type of the atoms which has different atomic size from that of the host atoms. It was found that for a given atomic size difference larger than a critical value, the CGT proceeds with increasing solute concentrations in three stages, each of which is characterized by distinct behaviors of translational and bond-orientational order correlation functions. An intermediate phase which has a quasi-long range orientational order but short range translational order has been found to exist prior to the formation of the amorphous phase. The destabilization of crystallinity is observed to be directly related to defects. We examine these results in the context of two dimensional (2D) melting theory. Finite size effects on these results, in particular on the intermediate phase formation, are discussed.


1980 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Baxter ◽  
I. G. Enting ◽  
S. K. Tsang
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2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik Hobrecht ◽  
Fred Hucht

Based on the results published recently [SciPost Phys. 7, 026 (2019)], the influence of surfaces and boundary fields are calculated for the ferromagnetic anisotropic square lattice Ising model on finite lattices as well as in the finite-size scaling limit. Starting with the open cylinder, we independently apply boundary fields on both sides which can be either homogeneous or staggered, representing different combinations of boundary conditions. We confirm several predictions from scaling theory, conformal field theory and renormalisation group theory: we explicitly show that anisotropic couplings enter the scaling functions through a generalised aspect ratio, and demonstrate that open and staggered boundary conditions are asymptotically equal in the scaling regime. Furthermore, we examine the emergence of the surface tension due to one antiperiodic boundary in the system in the presence of symmetry breaking boundary fields, again for finite systems as well as in the scaling limit. Finally, we extend our results to the antiferromagnetic Ising model.


2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (09) ◽  
pp. 1249-1268 ◽  
Author(s):  
DENIS HORVÁTH ◽  
MARTIN GMITRA

Self-organized Monte Carlo simulations of 2D Ising ferromagnet on the square lattice are performed. The essence of the suggested simulation method is an artificial dynamics consisting of the well-known single-spin-flip Metropolis algorithm supplemented by a random walk on the temperature axis. The walk is biased towards the critical region through a feedback based on instantaneous energy and magnetization cumulants, which are updated at every Monte Carlo step and filtered through a special recursion algorithm. The simulations revealed the invariance of the temperature probability distribution function, once some self-organized critical steady regime is reached, which is called here noncanonical equilibrium. The mean value of this distribution approximates the pseudocritical temperature of canonical equilibrium. In order to suppress finite-size effects, the self-organized approach is extended to multi-lattice systems, where the feedback basis on pairs of instantaneous estimates of the fourth-order magnetization cumulant on two systems of different size. These replica-based simulations resemble, in Monte Carlo lattice systems, some of the invariant statistical distributions of standard self-organized critical systems.


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