https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2008-00749-0
A review of the dynamical susceptibility in different complex systems
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Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, INFN, CNR-INFM Coherentia and CNISM, via Cinthia, 80126 Napoli, Italy
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ETH Zürich, Department of Materials, Polymer Physics, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
Corresponding author: coniglio@na.infn.it
The dynamical susceptibility has been introduced to characterize the dynamical heterogeneities in glass forming liquids. We have used it as a tool to investigate the slow dynamics of other disordered systems such as gels, granular media and spin glasses. We review here the results obtained via numerical simulations of different model systems. The comparative study of the behaviour of the dynamical susceptibility sheds some light on the significant differences in the complex slow dynamics of glasses, spin glasses, granular media, irreversible gels, and colloidal gels.
© EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 2008
