Rich out-of-equilibrium collective dynamics of strongly interacting large assemblies emerge
in many areas of science. Some intriguing and not fully understood examples are the glassy …

Mode-coupling theory is an approach to the study of complex behavior in the supercooled
liquids which developed from the idea of a nonlinear feedback mechanism. From the …

This book gives a pedagogical introduction to the physics of amorphous solids and related
disordered condensed matter systems. Important concepts from statistical mechanics such …

We show that, in nonequilibrium systems with small heat flows, there is a time-scale-
dependent effective temperature that plays the same role as the thermodynamical …

Starting from a set of assumptions on the long-time limit behaviour of the nonequilibrium
relaxation of mean-field models in the thermodynamic limit, we derive analytical results for …

This review presents the effective temperature notion as defined from the deviations from the
equilibrium fluctuation–dissipation theorem in out-of-equilibrium systems with slow …

We review recent theoretical progress on glassy dynamics, with special emphasis on the
importance and universality of the aging regime, which is relevant to many experimental …

We present a detailed study of simple" tree" models for off equilibrium dynamics and aging
in glassy systems. The simplest tree describes the landscape of a random energy model …

In this paper we develop further a method recently introduced by one of us to study
metastable states in spin glasses. We consider apotentional function', defined as the free …

We discuss the general link between mode-coupling like equations (which serve as the
basis of some recent theories of supercooled liquids) and the dynamical equations …