Dimensional Study of the Caging Order Parameter at the Glass Transition
arXiv:1205.4057 · doi:10.1073/pnas.1211825109
Abstract
The glass problem is notoriously hard and controversial. Even at the mean-field level, little is agreed about how a fluid turns 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, we find the cage to keep a non-trivial 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 here qualitatively supported and non-mean-field corrections are found to remain small on decreasing dimension, reconsideration of its implementation is needed for it to result in a coherent description of experimental observations.
6 pages, 4 figures
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