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Entropic droplets and activated events near the glass transition of a random heteropolymer

Shoji Takada, Peter G. Wolynes

cond-mat.dis-nnarXiv:cond-mat/9701165

Abstract

The barriers between metastable states near the glass transition of a random heteropolymer are studied using replicas by describing inhomogeneous states. The instanton solution for a replica space free energy functional is found numerically to estimate the size of activation barriers and of the critical nuclei themselves between the dynamic and the static glass transition temperatures.

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