Glass Phenomenology from the Connection to Spin Glasses

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that key features of glass phenomenology can be derived from a mapping to Ising spin glasses, suggesting universality near the glass transition and enabling semi-quantitative insights into supercooled liquids.

Contribution

It introduces a novel connection between glass phenomenology and spin glass models, providing a new theoretical framework for understanding glass transition phenomena.

Findings

Vogel-Fulcher law derived from spin glass mapping

Kauzmann paradox explained via spin glass universality

Adam-Gibbs relationship supported by the model

Abstract

Typical features of glass phenomenology such as the Vogel-Fulcher law, the Kauzmann paradox and the Adam-Gibbs relationship are shown to follow from the recently discovered mapping of glasses to Ising spin glasses in a magnetic field. There seems to be sufficient universality near the glass transition temperature $T_g$ such that study of the spin glass system can provide semi-quantitative results for supercooled liquids.