Heriot-Watt Mathematics Report Series
HWM97-4, September 96

Condensation in the Backgammon Model

P Bialas, Z Burda and D Johnston


Abstract

We analyse the properties of a very simple balls-in-boxes'' model which can exhibit a phase transition between a fluid and a condensed phase, similar to behaviour encountered in models of random geometries in one, two and four dimensions. This model can be viewed as a generalisation of the backgammon model introduced by Ritort as an example of glassy behaviour without disorder.

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