Disorder and amorphous systems constitute a large body of modern scientific and
technological research, where metallic glasses represent a simple realistic model material …

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 …

A great success of solid state physics comes from the characterization of crystal structures in
the reciprocal (wave vector) space. The power of structural characterization in Fourier space …

The recent discovery of non-classical crystal nucleation pathways has revealed the role of
fluctuations in the liquid structural order, not considered in classical nucleation theory. On …

Two or more liquid states may exist even for single-component substances, which is known
as liquid polymorphism, and the transition between them is called liquid–liquid transition …

It has been recently established that the low-frequency spectrum of simple computer glass
models is populated by soft, quasilocalized nonphononic vibrational modes whose …

There is ever-growing research interest in nanomaterials because of the unique properties
that emerge on the nanometer scale. While crystalline nanomaterials have received a surge …

Controlling a state of material between its crystalline and glassy phase has fostered many
real-world applications. Nevertheless, design rules for crystallization and vitrification kinetics …

Glass is ubiquitous in life and widely used in various fields. However, there is an urgent
need to develop biodegradable and biorecyclable glasses that have a minimal …

Supercooled liquids display sluggish dynamics, often attributed to their structural
characteristics, yet the underlying mechanism remains elusive. Here we conduct numerical …