In Search of Configurational Entropy
Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar
In Search of Configurational Entropy
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 23rd October 2000
- Speaker: Professor Martin Evans (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
In this talk I will review the key features of glassy dynamics both from
an experimental and theoretical viewpoint. I will then discuss the
concepts of potential energy landscape, inherent structures and
configurational entropy referring to the work of Stillinger and Weber on
structural glasses. I will then discuss the relation of these ideas to
those of free energy landscape and effective temperature.
In my reading for this talk I have found the following articles particularly useful
'Packing Structures and Transitions in Liquids and Solids' Stillinger and T.A.Weber Science 225, 983 (1984)
'A Topographic View of Supercooled Liquids and Glass Formation' F. H. Stillinger Science 267, 1935 (1995)
'Metastable states in glassy systems' G. Biroli and J. Kurchan Cond-mat/0005499
'Configurational entropy and the one-step RSB scenario in glasses' A. Crisanti and F. Ritort cond-mat/0009261
'Inherent structures and non-equilibrium dynamics of 1D constrined kinetic models' A. Crisanti, F. Ritort, A. Rocco and M. Sellito cond-mat/0006045
In my reading for this talk I have found the following articles particularly useful
'Packing Structures and Transitions in Liquids and Solids' Stillinger and T.A.Weber Science 225, 983 (1984)
'A Topographic View of Supercooled Liquids and Glass Formation' F. H. Stillinger Science 267, 1935 (1995)
'Metastable states in glassy systems' G. Biroli and J. Kurchan Cond-mat/0005499
'Configurational entropy and the one-step RSB scenario in glasses' A. Crisanti and F. Ritort cond-mat/0009261
'Inherent structures and non-equilibrium dynamics of 1D constrined kinetic models' A. Crisanti, F. Ritort, A. Rocco and M. Sellito cond-mat/0006045
About Condensed Matter lunchtime seminars
This is a weekly series of informal talks given primarily by members of the institute of condensed matter and complex systems, but is also open to members of other groups and external visitors. The aim of the series is to promote discussion and learning of various topics at a level suitable to the broad background of the group. Everyone is welcome to attend..