1. Impact of jamming criticality on low-temperature anomalies in structural glasses
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Silvio Franz, Giorgio Parisi, Thibaud Maimbourg, Antonello Scardicchio, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques (LPTMS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics [Trieste] (ICTP), Center for Statistical Mechanics and Complexity, INFM Roma 'La Sapienza' and Dipartimento di Fisica, and Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome]
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Physics ,[PHYS]Physics [physics] ,Multidisciplinary ,Condensed matter physics ,Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Jamming ,Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn) ,Renormalization group ,Condensed Matter - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks ,01 natural sciences ,010305 fluids & plasmas ,symbols.namesake ,Critical point (thermodynamics) ,Physical Sciences ,0103 physical sciences ,symbols ,010306 general physics ,Scaling ,Debye model ,Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics ,Marginal stability ,Phase diagram ,Debye - Abstract
We present a novel mechanism for the anomalous behaviour of the specific heat in low-temperature amorphous solids. The analytic solution of a mean-field model belonging to the same universality class as high-dimensional glasses, the spherical perceptron, suggests that there exists a crossover temperature above which the specific heat scales linearly with temperature while below it a cubic scaling is displayed. This relies on two crucial features of the phase diagram: (i) The marginal stability of the free-energy landscape, which induces a gapless phase responsible for the emergence of a power-law scaling (ii) The vicinity of the classical jamming critical point, as the crossover temperature gets lowered when approaching it. This scenario arises from a direct study of the thermodynamics of the system in the quantum regime, where we show that, contrary to crystals, the Debye approximation does not hold., Comment: 7 pages + 38 pages SI, 5 figures
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- 2019
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