Amorphous solids, or glasses, are distinguished from crystalline solids by their lack of long-
range structural order. At the level of two-body structural correlations, glassformers show no …

Understanding the characteristics of jammed particle packings provides basic insights into
the structure and bulk properties of crystals, glasses, and granular media and into selected …

A long-standing question in water research is the possibility that supercooled liquid water
can undergo a liquid-liquid phase transition (LLT) into high-and low-density liquids. We …

In contrast to crystalline solids—for which a precise framework exists for describing structure—
quantifying structural order in liquids and glasses has proved more difficult because even …

Very different materials are named “Glass,” with Young's modulus (E) and Poisson's ratio (ν)
extending from 5 to 180 GPa and from 0.1 to 0.4, respectively, in the case of bulk inorganic …

Abstract Olivier Bachmann is Professor of volcanology and magmatic petrology at the ETH
Zürich. He obtained his PhD at the University of Geneva, and held positions of post-doctoral …

The densest amorphous packing of rigid particles is known as random close packing. It has
long been appreciated that higher densities are achieved by using collections of particles …

This paper is the fourth in a series devoted to identifying and explaining the properties of
strongly correlating liquids, ie, liquids where virial and potential energy correlate better than …

Optimal spatial sampling of light rigorously requires that identical photoreceptors be
arranged in perfectly regular arrays in two dimensions. Examples of such perfect arrays in …

It has been shown numerically that systems of particles interacting with isotropic “stealthy”
bounded long-ranged pair potentials (similar to Friedel oscillations) have classical ground …