Structural heterogeneities and mechanical behavior of amorphous alloys

JC Qiao, Q Wang, JM Pelletier, H Kato… - Progress in Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
Although the atomic structure of amorphous alloys, which lacks long-range translational
symmetry, may appear homogeneous at the macroscopic scale, their local dynamic and/or …

Modern computational studies of the glass transition

L Berthier, DR Reichman - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The physics of the glass transition and amorphous materials continues to attract the attention
of a wide research community after decades of effort. Supercooled liquids and glasses have …

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 …

Hyperuniform states of matter

S Torquato - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Hyperuniform states of matter are correlated systems that are characterized by an
anomalous suppression of long-wavelength (ie, large-length-scale) density fluctuations …

Models and algorithms for the next generation of glass transition studies

A Ninarello, L Berthier, D Coslovich - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
Successful computer studies of glass-forming materials need to overcome both the natural
tendency to structural ordering and the dramatic increase of relaxation times at low …

Theoretical perspective on the glass transition and amorphous materials

L Berthier, G Biroli - Reviews of modern physics, 2011 - APS
A theoretical perspective is provided on the glass transition in molecular liquids at thermal
equilibrium, on the spatially heterogeneous and aging dynamics of disordered materials …

Glass and jamming transitions: From exact results to finite-dimensional descriptions

P Charbonneau, J Kurchan, G Parisi… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Despite decades of work, gaining a first-principles understanding of amorphous materials
remains an extremely challenging problem. However, recent theoretical breakthroughs have …

Predicting dynamic heterogeneity in glass-forming liquids by physics-inspired machine learning

G Jung, G Biroli, L Berthier - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We introduce GlassMLP, a machine learning framework using physics-inspired structural
input to predict the long-time dynamics in deeply supercooled liquids. We apply this deep …

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 …

Perspective: The glass transition

G Biroli, JP Garrahan - The Journal of chemical physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We provide here a brief perspective on the glass transition field. It is an assessment, written
from the point of view of theory, of where the field is and where it seems to be heading. We …