proceedings-PitardTurci˙revision DYNAMICAL HETEROGENEITIES IN A TWO DIMENSIONAL DRIVEN GLASSY MODEL: CURRENT FLUCTUATIONS AND FINITE SIZE EFFECTS

In this article, we demonstrate that in a transport model of particles with kinetic con-straints, long-lived spatial structures are responsible for the blocking dynamics and the decrease of the current at strong driving field. Coexistence between mobile and blocked regions can be anticipated by a first-order transition in the large deviation function for the current. By a study of the system under confinement, we are able to study finite-size effects and extract a typical length between mobile regions