Dynamical large deviations in glassy systems

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• Rob Jack, DAMTP and Chemistry
• Tuesday 06 February 2018, 13:00-14:00
• MR11, CMS.

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Glassy materials are those in which the diffusive motion of atoms and molecules becomes very slow, when the temperature is reduced. There a range of simple physical models that aim to reproduce and explain the phenomena that occur in such materials. We analyse dynamical fluctuations in some of these models using large deviation theory. This reveals several dynamical phase transitions. We analyse some properties of these phase transitions and discuss their implications for theories of the glass transition.

This talk is part of the DAMTP Statistical Physics and Soft Matter Seminar series.

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