First-order dynamical phase transition in models of glasses: an approach based on ensembles of histories
First-order dynamical phase transition in models of glasses: an approach based on ensembles of histories
We investigate the dynamics of kinetically constrained models of glass formers by analysing the statistics of trajectories of the dynamics, or histories, using large deviation function methods. We show that, in general, these models exhibit a first-order dynamical transition between active and inactive dynamical phases. We argue that the dynamical …