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 …

Glasses have markedly different stability around their glass transition temperature (T g), and
metallic glasses (MGs) are conventionally regarded as metastable compared to other …

Ultrastable glasses (mostly prepared from the vapor phase under optimized deposition
conditions) represent a unique class of materials with low enthalpies and high kinetic …

The configurational entropy is one of the most important thermodynamic quantities
characterizing supercooled liquids approaching the glass transition. Despite decades of …

The broken symmetry in the atomic-scale ordering of glassy versus crystalline solids leads to
a daunting challenge to provide suitable metrics for describing the order within disorder …

Recently, a putative phase transition has been discovered in metallic glasses that could lead
to two distinct amorphous states. This phenomenon, known as polyamorphism, has …

The paradigmatic view on the transformation of a supercooled liquid into a glass, so‐called
vitrification or glass transition, and the subsequent time evolution of the non‐equilibrium …

Active glassy matter has recently emerged as a novel class of non-equilibrium soft matter,
combining energy-driven, active particle movement with dense and disordered glass-like …

Upon approaching the glass transition, the relaxation of supercooled liquids is controlled by
activated processes, which become dominant at temperatures below the so-called …