Önder, Koray (2019). Dynamics close to Bifurcations: From Spins to Granular Media. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
Most liquids solidify into an ordered crystalline solid during cooling. These solids have a long-range order which can be measured by scattering experiments. In contrast, the so-called glass formers solidify into an amorphous solid, which does not have a long-range order and does not differ from a liquid in scattering experiments. Mode coupling theory is used to explain such liquid-glass transitions using density correlators. The equations of motion of the density correlators show a bifurcation in the long time limit. Mode coupling uses these bifurcations to describe the dynamics of glass-forming systems.\\ Such bifurcations appear in various systems such as granular media or spin models. The aim of this thesis is to analyze bifurcations in different systems and to apply mode coupling theory to explain the dynamics of such systems. For the glass transition in dissipative granular media a closed equation of motion is derived with the help of the mode coupling theory. Also in kinetically constraint spin models, where the dynamics are mainly determined by the neighborhood of a spin, transitions from an ergodic state to non-ergodic one occur. Such transitions can be identified with the liquid-glass transition and also generate a bifurcation, which is investigated in this thesis with the mode coupling theory. Here, the dynamics derived from mode coupling theory are compared with simulations.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-101686 | ||||||||
Date: | 2019 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Physics > Institute for Theoretical Physics | ||||||||
Subjects: | General statistics Mathematics Physics |
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Date of oral exam: | 20 September 2019 | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/10168 |
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