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Phase diagram of glassy systems in an external field

Silvio Franz, Giorgio Parisi

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/9701033

Abstract

We study the mean-field phase diagram of glassy systems in a field pointing in the direction of a metastable state. We find competition among a ``magnetized'' and a ``disordered'' phase, that are separated by a coexistence line as in ordinary first order phase transitions. The coexistence line terminates in a critical point, which in principle can be observed in numerical simulations of glassy models.

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