Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2058–2061 (2001)Entropy-Vanishing Transition and Glassy Dynamics in Frustrated SpinsReceived 7 June 2000; published in the issue dated 5 March 2001 In an effort to understand the glass transition, the dynamics of a nonrandomly frustrated spin model has been analyzed. The phenomenology of the spin model is similar to that of a supercooled liquid undergoing the glass transition. The slow dynamics can be associated with the presence of extended stringlike structures which demarcate regions of fast spin flips. An entropy-vanishing transition, with the string density as the order parameter, is related to the observed glass transition in the spin model. © 2001 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.2058
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.2058
PACS:
64.70.Pf, 61.20.Lc, 64.60.My
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