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Recent theories of glasses as out of equilibrium systems

Jorge Kurchan

Published 2000-11-07Version 1

We discuss a theoretical approach to structural glasses as they happen in real situations. Older ideas based on `configurational entropy', on `fictive temperatures' and on Edwards' `compactivity' are sharpened and unified in an out of equilibrium context. The picture is such that it may be supported or disproved by an experimental test, which we describe.

Comments: To be published in the special issue `Physics of Glasses' of the Comptes Rendus de Physique de l'Academie des Sciences
Categories: cond-mat.stat-mech
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