Dynamic relaxations and relaxation-property relationships in metallic glasses

WH Wang - Progress in Materials Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Dynamic relaxation is an intrinsic and universal feature of glasses and enables fluctuation
and dissipation to occur, which induces plentiful behaviour, maintains equilibrium, and …

Modern computational studies of the glass transition

L Berthier, DR Reichman - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The physics of the glass transition and amorphous materials continues to attract the attention
of a wide research community after decades of effort. Supercooled liquids and glasses have …

Thermal expansion and the glass transition

P Lunkenheimer, A Loidl, B Riechers, A Zaccone… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Melting is well understood in terms of the Lindemann criterion, which essentially states that
crystalline materials melt when the thermal vibrations of their atoms become so vigorous that …

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 …

Unveiling the predictive power of static structure in glassy systems

V Bapst, T Keck, A Grabska-Barwińska, C Donner… - Nature physics, 2020 - nature.com
Despite decades of theoretical studies, the nature of the glass transition remains elusive and
debated, while the existence of structural predictors of its dynamics is a major open …

Hyperuniform states of matter

S Torquato - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Hyperuniform states of matter are correlated systems that are characterized by an
anomalous suppression of long-wavelength (ie, large-length-scale) density fluctuations …

Colloidal hard spheres: Triumphs, challenges, and mysteries

CP Royall, P Charbonneau, M Dijkstra, J Russo… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
The simplicity of hard spheres as a model system is deceptive. Although the particles
interact solely through volume exclusion, that nevertheless suffices for a wealth of static and …

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 …

Perspective: Highly stable vapor-deposited glasses

MD Ediger - The Journal of chemical physics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
This article describes recent progress in understanding highly stable glasses prepared by
physical vapor deposition and provides perspective on further research directions for the …

Chalcogenide ovonic threshold switching selector

Z Zhao, S Clima, D Garbin, R Degraeve, G Pourtois… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2024 - Springer
Today's explosion of data urgently requires memory technologies capable of storing large
volumes of data in shorter time frames, a feat unattainable with Flash or DRAM. Intel Optane …