Structural Glass Transition and the Entropy of the Metastable States

The metastable states of a glass are localized and counted by adding a weak pinning field that explicitly breaks the ergodicity. The entropy of the metastable states, that is, the logarithm of their number, is extensive in a range of temperatures Tₛ<T<Tc only. It is argued that Tₛ and Tc are the ideal calorimetric and kinetic transition temperatures, respectively. An explicit computation of the metastable states entropy for a (→φ²)² model is given.