Correlation length for amorphous systems
| dc.creator | Kurchan, Jorge | |
| dc.creator | Levine, Dov | |
| dc.date | 2009-04-30 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T13:10:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T13:10:35Z | |
| dc.description | Crystals and quasicrystals can be characterized by an order that is a purely geometric property of an instantaneous configuration, independent of particle dynamics or interactions. Glasses, on the other hand, are ostensibly amorphous arrangements of particles. A natural and long-standing question has been whether they too have, albeit in a hidden way, some form of geometric order. Here we define a coherence length that applies to systems which are typically characterized as amorphous, as well as to those that are conventionally ordered. We argue that the divergence of such a length is consistent with current theories of the `ideal' glass transition. | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.4850 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.4850 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/229049 | |
| dc.subject | Disordered Systems and Neural Networks | |
| dc.title | Correlation length for amorphous systems | |
| dc.type | text |