Slow logarithmic relaxation in models with hierarchically constrained dynamics

Abstract

A general kind of models with hierarchically constrained dynamics is shown to exhibit logarithmic anomalous relaxation, similarly to a variety of complex strongly interacting materials. The logarithmic behavior describes most of the decay of the response function.

4 pages, 1 figure, revised version; to appear in Phys. Rev. E

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