Complex Behaviour Of Glassy Systems: Proceedings Of The Xiv Sitges Conference, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, 10-14 June 1996 (lecture Notes In Physics)

For The First Time This Subject, Including Many Systems Of Interest In Condensed Matter Physics, Is Treated In An Unified Way. Complexity Emerges As One Of The Main Ingredients Dictating The Collective Behaviour Of Many Systems. Glassy Systems Constitute One Of The Most Interesting Fields Of Condensed Matter Physics For Which Also A Considerable Amount Of Experimental Data And Industial Applications Have Been Collected During The Last Twenty Years. Systems Exhibiting Glassy Behaviour Are For Example: Real Glasses, Spin Glasses, Vortex Flasses In Superconductors, Protein Folding, Etc. In This Book The Reader Can See How The Present Theoretical Understanding Of These Subjects Is Based On Similar Techniques And Approaches Hopefully Allowing To Develop A Unifying Structure That Underlies The Physical Mechanism. Entropy, Fragility, “landscapes”, And The Glass Transition -- Computer Simulation Of Models For The Structural Glass Transition -- Microscopic Dynamics In Glasses In Relation To That Shown By Other Complex Systems -- Microscopic Dynamics Of A1c60 Compounds -- Dynamics Of A Supercooled Lennard-jones System: Qualitative And Quantitative Tests Of Mode-coupling Theory -- An Ideal Glass Transition In Supercooled Water? -- Glass Transition In The Hard Sphere System -- Slow Dynamics Of Glassy Systems -- Classical And Quantum Behavior In Mean-field Glassy Systems -- Complexity As The Driving Force For Glassy Transitions -- A Solvable Model Of A Glass -- On The Long Times, Large Length Scale Behaviour Of Disordered Systems -- Hexatic Glass -- Slow Dynamics And Aging In Spin Glasses -- Ultrametric Structure Of Finite Dimensional Spin Glasses -- Entropy Crisis In A Short Range Spin Glass -- Chiral And Spin Order In Xy Spin Glass -- A Metal-insulator Transition As A Quantum Glass Problem -- Quantum Spin Glasses -- Fermionic Quantum Spin Glass Transitions -- Polymer Winding Numbers And Quantum Mechanics -- Localized Flux Lines And The Bose Glass -- Structural Studies Of Magnetic Flux Line Lattices Near Critical Transitions -- Phase Diagram, Vortex Dynamics And Dissipation In Thin Films And Superlattices Of 1:2:3 Superconducting Cuprates -- Monte Carlo Study Of A Three-dimensional Vortex Glass Model With Screening -- Equilibrium Phase Transitions In Josephson Junction Arrays -- An Experimentally Realizable Weiss Model For Disorder-free Glassiness -- Randomly Charged Polymers -- Copolymer Melts In Disordered Media -- Cross-linked Polymer Chains: Scaling And Exact Results -- Magnetic Properties Of Geometrically Frustrated Systems -- Fractal Growth With Quenched Disorder -- Data Clustering And The Glassy Structures Of Randomness -- A Kinetic Description Of Disorder. Miguel Rubí, Conrado Pérez-vicente, (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References. Entropy, fragility, “landscapes”, and the glass transition....Pages 1-21 Computer simulation of models for the structural glass transition....Pages 22-43 Microscopic dynamics in glasses in relation to that shown by other complex systems....Pages 44-61 Microscopic dynamics of A 1 C 60 compounds....Pages 62-81 Dynamics of a supercooled Lennard-Jones system: Qualitative and quantitative tests of mode-coupling theory....Pages 82-89 An ideal glass transition in supercooled water?....Pages 90-99 Glass transition in the hard sphere system....Pages 100-110 Slow dynamics of glassy systems....Pages 111-121 Classical and quantum behavior in mean-field glassy systems....Pages 122-138 Complexity as the driving force for glassy transitions....Pages 139-149 A solvable model of a glass....Pages 150-161 On the long times, large length scale behaviour of disordered systems....Pages 162-175 Hexatic glass....Pages 176-183 Slow dynamics and aging in spin glasses....Pages 184-219 Ultrametric structure of finite dimensional spin glasses....Pages 220-225 Entropy crisis in a short range spin glass....Pages 226-231 Chiral and spin order in XY spin glass....Pages 232-240 A metal-insulator transition as a quantum glass problem....Pages 241-255 Quantum spin glasses....Pages 256-265 Fermionic quantum spin glass transitions....Pages 266-275 Polymer winding numbers and quantum mechanics....Pages 276-297 Localized flux lines and the bose glass....Pages 298-307 Structural studies of magnetic flux line lattices near critical transitions....Pages 308-315 Phase diagram, vortex dynamics and dissipation in thin films and superlattices of 1:2:3 superconducting cuprates....Pages 316-336 Monte carlo study of a three-dimensional vortex glass model with screening....Pages 337-341 Equilibrium phase transitions in Josephson junction arrays....Pages 342-375 An experimentally realizable weiss model for disorder-free glassiness....Pages 376-384 Randomly charged polymers....Pages 385-392 Copolymer melts in disordered media....Pages 393-402 Cross-linked polymer chains: Scaling and exact results....Pages 403-413 Magnetic properties of geometrically frustrated systems....Pages 414-425 Fractal growth with quenched disorder....Pages 426-437 Data clustering and the glassy structures of randomness....Pages 438-449 A kinetic description of disorder....Pages 450-462 A discussion of the complex behaviour of glassy systems. It contains papers on subjects such as global linear interfacial instability for the generalized needle solutions, and the anisotropy effect of surface tension and low-frequency instability.