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Dynamic first-order phase transition in kinetically constrained models of glasses J.P. Garrahan,1 R.L. Jack,2 V. Lecomte,3 E. Pitard,4 K. van Duijvendijk,3 and F. van Wijland3 1School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK 7 3 2Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 0 Laboratoire Mati`ere et Syst`emes Complexes (CNRS UMR 7057), Universit´e de Paris VII, 0 10 rue Alice Domon et L´eonie Duquet, 75205 Paris cedex 13, France 2 4Laboratoire des Collo¨ıdes, Verres et Nanomat´eriaux (CNRS UMR 5587), Universit´e de Montpellier II, place Eug`ene Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier cedex 5, France y a We show that the dynamics of kinetically constrained models of glass formers takes place at a first- M order coexistence line between active and inactive dynamical phases. We prove this by computing the large-deviation functions of suitable space-time observables, such as the number of configuration 2 changes in a trajectory. We present analytic results for dynamic facilitated models in a mean-field 2 approximation, and numerical results for the Fredrickson-Andersen model, the East model, and constrained lattice gases, in various dimensions. This dynamical first-order transition is generic in ] h kinetically constrained models, and we expect it to be present in systems with fully jammed states. c e PACS numbers: 05.40.-a, 64.70.Pf m - t An increasingly accepted view is that the