Aging in the trap model as a relaxation further away from equilibrium

Abstract

The aging regime of the trap model, observed for a temperature T below the glass transition temperature T_g, is a prototypical example of non-stationary out-of-equilibrium state. We characterize this state by evaluating its "distance to equilibrium", defined as the Shannon entropy difference ΔS (in absolute value) between the non-equilibrium state and the equilibrium state with the same energy. We consider the time evolution of ΔS and show that, rather unexpectedly, ΔS(t) continuously increases in the aging regime, if the number of traps is infinite, meaning that the "distance to equilibrium" increases instead of decreasing in the relaxation process. For a finite number N of traps, ΔS(t) exhibits a maximum value before eventually converging to zero when equilibrium is reached. The time t* at which the maximum is reached however scales in a non-standard way as t* ~ N^(T_g/2T), while the equilibration time scales as N^(T_g/T). In addition, the curves ΔS(t) for different N are found to rescale as ln t/ln t*, instead of the more familiar scaling t/t*.

arXiv comment9 pages, 2 figures, submitted to J. Phys. A

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