Complex systems may show strongly non-exponential relaxation, the origins of these behavior seem to be related to the fractal structure of the phase space. In this article, we consider the diffusion on a dilute hypercube, this stochastic process is a coarse-grained model for the time evolution...

We individuated a method to distinguish a glass phase from a highly viscous liquid phase in a lattice of vortices, established in type-two superconductors. Our analysis is based on the study of the temperature dependence of numerically obtained 1st and 3rd harmonics curves of the AC magnetic...

We study the phase diagram of glassy systems in the presence of an attractive coupling among real replicas. We find competition among a localized and a delocalized phase, that are separated by a coexistence line as in ordinary first-order phase transitions. The coexistence line terminates in a...

We analyze the validity of the fluctuation–dissipation theorem for slow relaxation systems in the context of mesoscopic nonequilibrium thermodynamics. We demonstrate that the violation arises as a natural consequence of the elimination of fast variables in the description of a glassy system,...

We review the results of a statistical mechanics approach to granular materials and its extension to non-thermal systems in their “inherent states”. We introduce a “tapping” dynamics, based on a dynamics used for real granular matter, which allows to visit the space of the inherent...

We show the existence of intermittent dynamics in one of the simplest model of a glassy system: the two-state model, which has been used [Physica A 329 (2003) 357] to explain the origin of the violation of the fluctuation–dissipation theorem. The dynamics is analyzed through a Langevin...

Conformal field theory (CFT) predicts universal relations between scaling amplitudes and scaling dimensions for two-dimensional systems on infinite length cylinders, which hold true even independent of the model under consideration. We discuss different possible generalizations of such laws to...

We introduce aperiodic, but deterministic, dilution of bonds in the Ising model with competing ferro and antiferromagnetic interactions between first and second neighbors along the branches of a Cayley tree. The problem is formulated as a non-linear dissipative map, whose attractors correspond...

This paper presents a new interacting particle system and uses it as a spin model for financial market microstructure. The asymptotic analysis of this stochastic process exhibits a lower bound to the contemporaneous measurement of price and trading volume under the invariant measure in the...

Substitution sequences are used for modelling non-homogeneous interactions between elements (atoms, spins, etc.) that form up neither periodic nor disordered lattice models whose physical properties may be different from those of homogeneous systems. In this work, we present a classification of...