Surface Tension in Kac Glass Models

Elia Zarinelli (1) , Silvio Franz (1)

1 LPTMS - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques

In this paper we study a distance-dependent surface tension, defined as the free-energy cost to put metastable states at a given distance. This will be done in the framework of a disordered microscopic model with Kac interactions that can be solved in the mean-field limit.

Domaines: Mécanique statistique [cond-mat.stat-mech]

Elia Zarinelli, Silvio Franz. Surface Tension in Kac Glass Models. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2010, pp.P04008. ⟨10.1088/1742-5468/2010/04/P04008⟩. ⟨hal-00473426⟩