Mode coupling as a Landau theory of the glass transition
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Mode-coupling as a Landau theory of the glass transition
We derive the Mode Coupling Theory (MCT) of the glass transition as a Landau theory, formulated as an expansion of the exact dynamical equations in the difference between the correlation function and its plateau value. This sheds light on the universality of MCT predictions. While our expansion generates higher order non-local corrections that modify the standard MCT equations, we find that the...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: EPL (Europhysics Letters)
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0295-5075,1286-4854
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/88/16001