Is. Graham et al., DYNAMICS AND EFFECTIVE THERMODYNAMICS OF A MODEL STRUCTURAL GLASS (J PHYS CONDENS MATTER, VOL 5, PG L349, 1992), Journal of physics. Condensed matter, 5(35), 1993, pp. 6491-6496
We use Monte Carlo methods to investigate, a purely dynamical model fo
r structural glasses. We observe stretched exponential decays of the e
quilibrium autocorrelation function and measure the late-time relaxati
on times tau. These diverge with temperature following a Vogel-Fulcher
law. We also study systems which are quenched deeply and then re-heat
ed. This gives a peak in the effective specific heat with properties m
atching those of the glass transition. The model thus reproduces the m
ain phenomenology of glasses and the glass transition.