This perspective article reviews arguments that glass-forming liquids are different from those
of standard liquid-state theory, which typically have a viscosity in the mPa· s range and …

We provide a theoretical description of dynamical heterogeneities in glass-forming liquids,
based on the premise that relaxation occurs via local rearrangements coupled by elasticity …

In supercooled liquids, dynamical facilitation refers to a phenomenon where microscopic
motion begets further motion nearby, resulting in spatially heterogeneous dynamics. This is …

We study the glass transition by exploring a broad class of kinetic rules that can significantly
modify the normal dynamics of supercooled liquids while maintaining thermal equilibrium …

Many complex and disordered systems fail to reach equilibrium after they have been
quenched or perturbed. Instead, they sluggishly relax toward equilibrium at an ever-slowing …

Glass transitions are widely observed in various types of soft matter systems. However, the
physical mechanism of these transitions remains elusive despite years of ambitious …

We propose a computational strategy to quantify the temperature evolution of the timescales
and length scales over which dynamic facilitation affects the relaxation dynamics of glass …

The yielding transition in athermal complex fluids can be interpreted as an absorbing phase
transition between an elastic, absorbing state with high mesoscopic degeneracy and a …

When a sufficiently high stress is applied to a metallic glass, causing plastic deformation, the
material undergoes structural reconfiguration through dissipative slip avalanche events that …

We numerically investigate the identification of relevant structural features that contribute to
the dynamical heterogeneity in a model glass-forming liquid. By employing the recently …