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Spinodals with Disorder: from Avalanches in Random Magnets to Glassy Dynamics

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Motivated by the connection between the dynamical transition predicted by the mean-field theory of glass-forming liquids and the spinodal of an Ising model in a quenched random field (RFIM) beyond mean-field, we revisit the phenomenon of spinodals in the presence of quenched disorder and develop a complete theory for it. By working at zero temperature in the quasi-statically driven RFIM, thermal fluctuations are eliminated and one can give a rigorous content to the notion of spinodal. We show that the spinodal transition is due to the depinning and the subsequent expansion of rare droplets. We work out the critical behavior, which, in any finite dimension, is very different from the mean-field one: the characteristic length diverges exponentially and the thermodynamic quantities display very mild non-analyticities much like in a Griffith phenomenon. On the basis of our results we assess the physical content and the status of the dynamical transition predicted by the mean-field theory of glassy dynamics.

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cea-01188243 , version 1 (28-08-2015)

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Saroj Nandi, Giulio Biroli, Gilles Tarjus. Spinodals with Disorder: from Avalanches in Random Magnets to Glassy Dynamics. 2015. ⟨cea-01188243⟩
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