1997/02/07 by Bouchaud, Jean-Philippe, Cugliandolo, Leticia F., Kurchan, Jorge +1 · 1 citation
#Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn) #FOS: Physical sciences #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9702070
We review recent theoretical progress on glassy dynamics, with special emphasis on the importance and universality of the ``aging regime'', which is relevant to many experimental situations. The three main subjects which we address are: (i) Phenomenological models of aging (coarsening, trap models), (ii) Analytical results for the low-temperature dynamics of mean-field models (corresponding to the mode-coupling equations); and (iii) Simple non-disordered models with glassy dynamics. We discuss the interrelation between these approaches, and also with previous work in the field. Several open problems are underlined -- in particular the precise relation between mean-field like (or mode-coupling) descriptions and finite dimensional problems.