ANDREA CRISANTI, S. Ciuchi
Università di Roma I
Dynamics of Random Potential Spherical Models
The dynamics of many degrees of freedom interacting via a random potential
and subject to a sperical constraint is investigated. Near the dynamical
transition the model is described by equations similar to those of the
Schematic Mode Coupling Theory of Structural Glasses. Two different
universality classes of critical dynamics are found, depending on
the nonlinearity of the potential. For both classes
we describe the dynamics above and below the transition lines.
These results can be relevant for the structural fragile glasses
where recent studies of the inherent structures indicate
a close analogy between the statistical properties on the N-body
potential and random potentials with the same nonlinearities.