Theoretical perspective on the glass transition and amorphous materials

L Berthier, G Biroli - Reviews of modern physics, 2011 - APS
A theoretical perspective is provided on the glass transition in molecular liquids at thermal
equilibrium, on the spatially heterogeneous and aging dynamics of disordered materials …

The role of local structure in dynamical arrest

CP Royall, SR Williams - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
Amorphous solids, or glasses, are distinguished from crystalline solids by their lack of long-
range structural order. At the level of two-body structural correlations, glassformers show no …

Thirty milliseconds in the life of a supercooled liquid

C Scalliet, B Guiselin, L Berthier - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
We combine the swap Monte Carlo algorithm to long multi-CPU molecular dynamics
simulations to analyze the equilibrium relaxation dynamics of model supercooled liquids …

The physics of the colloidal glass transition

GL Hunter, ER Weeks - Reports on progress in physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
As one increases the concentration of a colloidal suspension, the system exhibits a dramatic
increase in viscosity. Beyond a certain concentration, the system is said to be a colloidal …

Supercooled liquids for pedestrians

A Cavagna - Physics Reports, 2009 - Elsevier
When we lower the temperature of a liquid, at some point we meet a first order phase
transition to the crystal. Yet, under certain conditions it is possible to keep the system in its …

Mode-coupling theory of the glass transition: A primer

LMC Janssen - Frontiers in Physics, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the physics of glass formation remains one of the major unsolved challenges
of condensed matter science. As a material solidifies into a glass, it exhibits a spectacular …

Critical-like behaviour of glass-forming liquids

H Tanaka, T Kawasaki, H Shintani, K Watanabe - Nature materials, 2010 - nature.com
Recently it has been revealed that when approaching the glass-transition temperature, T g,
the dynamics of a liquid not only drastically slows down, but also becomes progressively …

Bond orientational order in liquids: Towards a unified description of water-like anomalies, liquid-liquid transition, glass transition, and crystallization: Bond orientational …

H Tanaka - The European Physical Journal E, 2012 - Springer
There are at least three fundamental states of matter, depending upon temperature and
pressure: gas, liquid, and solid (crystal). These states are separated by first-order phase …

From motility-induced phase-separation to glassiness in dense active matter

M Paoluzzi, D Levis, I Pagonabarraga - Communications Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Dense active systems are widespread in nature, examples range from bacterial colonies to
biological tissues. Dense clusters of active particles can be obtained by increasing the …

Dynamics on the way to forming glass: Bubbles in space-time

D Chandler, JP Garrahan - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2010 - annualreviews.org
We review a theoretical perspective of the dynamics of glass-forming liquids and the glass
transition, a perspective developed during this past decade based on the structure of …