Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9573560 | Biophysical Chemistry | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
In this work we shall show that the prevalence of activated dynamics over other kinds of mechanisms determines the emergence of complex dynamical behavior. Thus, complexity and diversity are not intrinsic properties of a system but depend on the kind of exploration of the landscape. We shall focus mainly on an ample generic context (complex hierarchical systems which have been used as models of glasses, spin glasses and biopolymers) and a specific one (model glass formers). For the last case we shall be able to reveal (in mechanistic terms) the microscopic rationale for the occurrence of timescale separation. Furthermore, we shall explore the connections between these two up to now mostly unrelated contexts and the relation to a variational principle, and we shall reveal the conditions for the applicability of the landscape approach.
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Authors
G.A. Appignanesi, L.M. Alarcón, J.A. RodrÃguez Fris, M.A. Frechero, R.A. Montani,