A ug 2 00 1 Sticky Spheres , Entropy barriers and Non - equilibrium phase transitions
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A sticky spheres model to describe slow dynamics of a non-equilibrium system is proposed. The dynamical slowing down is due to the presence of entropy barriers. An exact steady state analysis of the representative mean field equations, in the case when the clusters are chosen with the samè a priori probability, demonstrates a non-equilibrium phase transition from an exponential cluster size distribution to a powerlaw.
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2 2 Ja n 20 01 Sticky Spheres , Entropy barriers and Non - equilibrium phase transitions
A sticky spheres model to describe slow dynamics of a non-equilibrium system is proposed. The dynamical slowing down is due to the presence of entropy barriers. We present an exact mean field analysis of the model and demonstrate that there is a non-equilibrium phase transition from an exponential cluster size distribution to a powerlaw.
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