title: Finite-size scaling analysis of the glass transition.
abstract: We show that finite-size scaling techniques can be employed to study the glass transition. Our results follow from the postulate of a diverging dynamical correlation length at the glass transition whose physical manifestation is the presence of dynamical heterogeneities. We introduce a parameter B(T,L) whose temperature, T, and system size, L, dependences permit a precise location of the glass transition. We discuss the finite-size scaling behavior of a diverging susceptibility chi(L,T). These new techniques are successfully used to study two lattice models. The analysis straightforwardly applies to any glass-forming system.
authors.affiliation: Theoretical Physics, 1 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3NP, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Ludovic
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Berthier