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We numerically simulate a thermalization process in an energy landscape with hierarchically organized metastable states. The initial configuration is chosen to have a large energy excess, relative to the thermal equilibrium value at the running temperature. We show that the initial energy surplus is dissipated in a series of intermittent bursts, or quakes, whose rate decreases as the inverse of the age of the system. In addition, one observes energy fluctuations with a zero centered Gaussian distribution. These pertain to the pseudo equilibrium dynamics within a single metastable state, and do not contribute to the energy dissipation. The derivative of the thermal energy with respect to the logarithm of time is asymptotically constant, and comprises a temperature independent part, and a part with an Arrhenius temperature dependence. The findings closely mirror recent numerical simulation results obtained for microscopic glassy models. For these models, record-sized energy fluctuations have been claimed to trigger intermittent events during low temperature thermalization. In the present model record-sized fluctuations are by construction needed to trigger changes from one metastable

Author

Fischer, Andreas; Sibani, Paolo; Hoffmann, Karl Heinz

Published

2007

Language

EN