The physics of the colloidal glass transition

GL Hunter, ER Weeks - Reports on progress in physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
As one increases the concentration of a colloidal suspension, the system exhibits a dramatic
increase in viscosity. Beyond a certain concentration, the system is said to be a colloidal …

Heterogeneous dynamics in liquids: fluctuations inspace and time

R Richert - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
The disordered nature of glass-forming melts gives rise to non-Arrhenius and non-
exponential behaviour of their dynamics. With respect to the microscopic details involved in …

Thirty milliseconds in the life of a supercooled liquid

C Scalliet, B Guiselin, L Berthier - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
We combine the swap Monte Carlo algorithm to long multi-CPU molecular dynamics
simulations to analyze the equilibrium relaxation dynamics of model supercooled liquids …

[BUKU][B] The glass transition: relaxation dynamics in liquids and disordered materials

E Donth - 2013 - books.google.com
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 …

Exploring the potential energy landscape of glass-forming systems: from inherent structuresvia metabasins to macroscopic transport

A Heuer - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
In this review a systematic analysis of the potential energy landscape (PEL) of glass-forming
systems is presented. Starting from the thermodynamics, the route towards the dynamics is …

Spatially heterogeneous dynamics investigated via a time-dependent four-point density correlation function

N Lačević, FW Starr, TB Schrøder… - The Journal of chemical …, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
Relaxation in supercooled liquids above their glass transition and below the onset
temperature of “slow” dynamics involves the correlated motion of neighboring particles. This …

On the Adam-Gibbs-Kirkpatrick-Thirumalai-Wolynes scenario for the viscosity increase in glasses

JP Bouchaud, G Biroli - The Journal of chemical physics, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
We reformulate the interpretation of the mean-field glass transition scenario for finite
dimensional systems, proposed by Kirkpatrick, Thirumalai, and Wolynes (KTW)[Phys. Rev. A …

Measurement of growing dynamical length scales and prediction of the jamming transition in a granular material

AS Keys, AR Abate, SC Glotzer, DJ Durian - Nature physics, 2007 - nature.com
Supercooled liquids and dense colloidal suspensions exhibit anomalous behaviour known
as 'spatially heterogeneous dynamics'(SHD), which becomes increasingly pronounced as …

Computer simulations of supercooled polymer melts in the bulk and in confinedgeometry

J Baschnagel, F Varnik - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
We survey results of computer simulations for the structure and dynamics of supercooled
polymer melts and films. Our survey is mainly concerned with features of a coarse grained …

Mode-coupling theory

DR Reichman, P Charbonneau - Journal of Statistical Mechanics …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
In this set of lecture notes we review the mode-coupling theory of the glass transition from
several perspectives. First, we derive mode-coupling equations for the description of density …