Scientific understanding of any kind of radiation effects starts from the primary damage, ie
the defects that are produced right after an initial atomic displacement event initiated by a …

We review recent research into elastic and plastic deformation of metallic glasses, with an
emphasis on making connections between developments in theory and simulation (largely …

Using molecular-dynamics computer simulations we investigate how in silica the glass
transition and the properties of the resulting glass depend on the cooling rate with which the …

Amorphous metallic alloys, also called metallic glasses, are of considerable technological
importance. The metastability of these systems, which gives rise to various rearrangement …

Glassy solids exhibit a wide variety of generic thermomechanical properties, ranging from
universal anomalous specific heat at cryogenic temperatures to nonlinear plastic yielding …

The Johari-Goldstein secondary (β) relaxations are an intrinsic feature of supercooled
liquids and glasses. They are crucial to many properties of glassy materials, but the …

We show that a vibrational instability of the spectrum of weakly interacting quasilocal
harmonic modes creates the maximum in the inelastic scattering intensity in glasses, the …

We present an instantaneous-normal-mode analysis of liquid water at room temperature
based on a computer simulated set of liquid configurations and we compare the results to …

It is now well established that glasses feature quasilocalized nonphononic excitations—
coined “soft spots”—, which follow a universal ω 4 density of states in the limit of low …

We investigate the fast β-and Johari–Goldstein (JG) β-relaxation processes, along with the
elastic scattering response of glass-forming (GF) liquids and the boson peak, in a simulated …