Glassiness through the emergence of effective dynamical constraints in interacting systems

Abstract

I describe a class of spin models with short--range plaquette interactions whose static equilibrium properties are trivial but which display glassy dynamics at low temperatures. These models have a dual description in terms of free defects subject to effective kinetic constraints, and are thus an explicit realization of the constrained dynamics picture of glassy systems.

Invited talk at ESF SPHINX meeting `Glassy behaviour of kinetically constrained models' (Barcelona, March 2001). To appear in J. Phys. Condens. Matter

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