Lattice models of disorder with order

AUTOR(ES)

Petri, Alberto

FONTE

Brazilian Journal of Physics

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003-09

RESUMO

This paper describes the use of simple lattice models for studying the properties of structurally disordered systems like glasses and granulates. The models considered have crystalline states as ground states, finite connectivity, and are not subject to constrained evolution rules. After a short review of some of these models, the paper discusses how two particularly simple kinds of models, the Potts model and the exclusion models, evolve after a quench at low temperature to glassy states rather than to crystalline states.

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