With the high-temperature superconductors a qualitatively new regime in the
phenomenology of type-II superconductivity can be accessed. The key elements governing …

▪ Abstract The energy landscape theory of protein folding is a statistical description of a
protein's potential surface. It assumes that folding occurs through organizing an ensemble of …

This is an extended version of my Nobel Lecture, delivered on December 8, 2021. I will
recall the genesis of the concept of multiple equilibria in natural sciences. I will then describe …

The field of phase transitions and critical phenomena continues to be active in research,
producing a steady stream of interesting and fruitful results. It has moved into a central place …

Kinetic interfaces form the basis of a fascinating, interdisciplinary branch of statistical
mechanics. Diverse stochastic growth processes can be unified via an intriguing nonlinear …

This pedagogical and self-contained text describes the modern mean field theory of simple
structural glasses. The book begins with a thorough explanation of infinite-dimensional …

The glass transition is well known to glass makers or from the common ex perience of drying
a used chewing gum. A liquid melt or a rubber becomes a solid glass when its temperature …

The effect of weak impurity disorder on flux lattices at equilibrium is studied quantitatively in
the absence of free dislocations using both the Gaussian variational method and the …

Experiments concerning the morphology of fracture surfaces of various materials are
reviewed. The observations are interpreted within the framework of models of lines moving …

Elastic systems driven in a disordered medium exhibit a depinning transition at zero
temperature and a creep regime at finite temperature and slow drive f. We derive functional …