Publications [#232081] of Patrick Charbonneau
Papers Published
- Charbonneau, P; Ikeda, A; Parisi, G; Zamponi, F, "Dimensional study of the caging order parameter at the glass transition.", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of AmericaAugust,, 2012, 109(35), 13939-13943 [22891303], [doi].
(last updated on 2024/04/24)Abstract:
The glass problem is notoriously hard and controversial. Even at the mean-field level, little is agreed upon regarding why a fluid becomes sluggish while exhibiting but unremarkable structural changes. It is clear, however, that the process involves self-caging, which provides an order parameter for the transition. It is also broadly assumed that this cage should have a gaussian shape in the mean-field limit. Here we show that this ansatz does not hold. By performing simulations as a function of spatial dimension d, we find the cage to keep a nontrivial form. Quantitative mean-field descriptions of the glass transition, such as mode-coupling theory, density functional theory, and replica theory, all miss this crucial element. Although the mean-field random first-order transition scenario of the glass transition is qualitatively supported here and non-mean-field corrections are found to remain small on decreasing d, reconsideration of its implementation is needed for it to result in a coherent description of experimental observations.