Space-time Phase Transitions in Driven Kinetically Constrained Lattice Models

Abstract

Kinetically constrained models (KCMs) have been used to study and understand the origin of glassy dynamics. Despite having trivial thermodynamic properties, their dynamics slows down dramatically at low temperatures while displaying dynamical heterogeneity as seen in glass forming supercooled liquids. This dynamics has its origin in an ergodic-nonergodic first-order phase transition between phases of distinct dynamical "activity". This is a "space-time" transition as it corresponds to a singular change in ensembles of trajectories of the dynamics rather than ensembles of configurations. Here we extend these ideas to driven glassy systems by considering KCMs driven into non-equilibrium steady states through non-conservative forces. By classifying trajectories through their entropy production we prove that driven KCMs also display an analogous first-order space-time transition between dynamical phases of finite and vanishing entropy production. We also discuss how trajectories with rare values of entropy production can be realized as typical trajectories of a mapped system with modified forces.

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• Large deviations and heterogeneities in a driven kinetically constrained model