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Emergent kinetic constraints, ergodicity breaking, and cooperative dynamics in noisy quantum systems (2016)
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Everest, B., Marcuzzi, M., Garrahan, J. P., & Lesanovsky, I. (2016). Emergent kinetic constraints, ergodicity breaking, and cooperative dynamics in noisy quantum systems. Physical Review E, 94(5), Article 052108. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.94.052108

Kinetically constrained spin systems play an important role in understanding key properties of the dynamics of slowly relaxing materials, such as glasses. Recent experimental studies have revealed that manifest kinetic constraints govern the evolutio... Read More about Emergent kinetic constraints, ergodicity breaking, and cooperative dynamics in noisy quantum systems.

Applicability of dynamic facilitation theory to binary hard disk systems (2016)
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Isobe, M., Keys, A. S., Chandler, D., & Garrahan, J. P. (2016). Applicability of dynamic facilitation theory to binary hard disk systems. Physical Review Letters, 117(14), Article 145701. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.145701

We numerically investigate the applicability of dynamic facilitation (DF) theory for glass-forming binary hard disk systems where supercompression is controlled by pressure. By using novel efficient algorithms for hard disks, we are able to generate... Read More about Applicability of dynamic facilitation theory to binary hard disk systems.

Classical stochastic dynamics and continuous matrix product states: gauge transformations, conditioned and driven processes, and equivalence of trajectory ensembles (2016)
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Garrahan, J. P. (2016). Classical stochastic dynamics and continuous matrix product states: gauge transformations, conditioned and driven processes, and equivalence of trajectory ensembles. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2016(7), Article 073208. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2016/07/073208

Borrowing ideas from open quantum systems, we describe a formalism to encode ensembles of trajectories of classical stochastic dynamics in terms of continuous matrix product states (cMPSs). We show how to define in this approach 'biased' or 'conditio... Read More about Classical stochastic dynamics and continuous matrix product states: gauge transformations, conditioned and driven processes, and equivalence of trajectory ensembles.

Signatures of many-body localisation in a system without disorder and the relation to a glass transition (2016)
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Hickey, J. M., Genway, S., & Garrahan, J. P. (2016). Signatures of many-body localisation in a system without disorder and the relation to a glass transition. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2016(5), https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2016/05/054047

We study a quantum spin system—adapted from a facilitated spin model for classical glasses—with local bilinear interactions and without quenched disorder which seems to display characteristic signatures of a many-body localisation (MBL) transition. F... Read More about Signatures of many-body localisation in a system without disorder and the relation to a glass transition.

Experimental observation of controllable kinetic constraints in a cold atomic gas (2016)
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Valado, M., Simonelli, C., Hoogerland, M., Lesanovsky, I., Garrahan, J. P., Arimondo, E., …Morsch, O. (2016). Experimental observation of controllable kinetic constraints in a cold atomic gas. Physical Review A, 93(4), Article 040701. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.93.040701

Many-body systems relaxing to equilibrium can exhibit complex dynamics even if their steady state is trivial. In situations where relaxation requires highly constrained local particle rearrangements, such as in glassy systems, this dynamics can be di... Read More about Experimental observation of controllable kinetic constraints in a cold atomic gas.

Emergence of cooperative dynamics in fully packed classical dimers (2016)
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Oakes, T., Garrahan, J. P., & Powell, S. (2016). Emergence of cooperative dynamics in fully packed classical dimers. Physical Review E, 93(3), Article 032129. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.93.032129

We study the behavior of classical dimer coverings of the square lattice—a paradigmatic model for systems subject to constraints—evolving under local stochastic dynamics, by means of Monte Carlo simulations and theoretical arguments. We observe clear... Read More about Emergence of cooperative dynamics in fully packed classical dimers.

Phase transition for quenched coupled replicas in a plaquette spin model of glasses (2016)
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Jack, R. L., & Garrahan, J. P. (2016). Phase transition for quenched coupled replicas in a plaquette spin model of glasses. Physical Review Letters, 116(5), Article 055702. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.055702

We study a three-dimensional plaquette spin model whose low temperature dynamics is glassy, due to localized defects and effective kinetic constraints. The thermodynamics of this system is smooth at all temperatures. We show that coupling it to a sec... Read More about Phase transition for quenched coupled replicas in a plaquette spin model of glasses.