Glass Phenomenology from the Connection to Spin Glasses

Abstract

Typical features of glass phenomenology such as the Vogel-Fulcher law, the Kauzmann paradox and the Adam-Gibbs relationship are shown to follow from the recently discovered mapping of glasses to Ising spin glasses in a magnetic field. There seems to be sufficient universality near the glass transition temperature $T_g$ such that study of the spin glass system can provide semi-quantitative results for supercooled liquids.

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