Effective temperature of an aging powder
arXiv:cond-mat/0012273 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.63.060301
Abstract
The aging dynamics and the fluctuation-dissipation relation between the spontaneous diffusion induced by a random noise and the drift motion induced by a small stirring force are numerically investigated in a 3D schematic model of compacting powder: a gravity-driven lattice-gas with kinetic constraints. The compaction dynamics is characterized by a super-aging behaviour and, in analogy with glasses, exhibits a purely dynamical time-scale dependent effective temperature. A simple experiment to measure this quantity is suggested.
4 pages, 4 figures; to appear in Phys. Rev. E