mesoscopic approach to the slow dynamics of supercooled liquids and colloidal systems

Abstract

We propose a method to analyze the dynamics of systems exhibiting slow relaxation which is based on mesoscopic non-equilibrium thermodynamics. The method allows us to obtain kinetic equations of the Fokker-Planck type for the probability functional and their corresponding Langevin equations. Our results are compared with the ones obtained by other authors.

Contribution to the Proceedings of the ESFSPHINX meeting 'Glassy behaviour of Kinetically constrained models'. (Barcelona, March 22-25, 2001) To appear in a special issue of J. Phys. Cond. Matt

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