From sub-aging to hyper-aging in structural glasses

Abstract

We demonstrate non-equilibrium scaling laws for the aging dynamics in glass formers that emerge from combining a recent application of Onsager's theory of irreversible processes with the equilibrium scaling laws of glassy dynamics. Different scaling regimes are predicted for the evolution of the system's structural relaxation time $\tau$ with age (waiting time $t_w$), depending on the depth of the quench from the liquid into the glass: \emph{simple aging} ($\tau \sim t_w$) applies for quenches close to the critical point of mode-coupling theory (MCT) and implies \emph{sub-aging} ($\tau \approx t_w^{\delta }$ with $\delta <1$) as a broad cross-over for quenches to nearly-arrested equilibrium states; \emph{hyper-aging} (or \emph{super-aging}, $\tau \sim t_w^{{\delta }^{\prime }}$ with ${\delta }^{\prime }>1$) emerges for quenches deep into the glass. The latter is cut off by non-mean-field fluctuations that we account for within a recent extension of MCT, the stochastic $\beta$-relaxation theory (SBR). We exemplify the scaling laws by a schematic model that allows to quantitatively fit recent simulation results for density-quenched hard-sphere-like particles.

5 pages, 3 figures

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