Note: This Perspective offers a progress report for the Simons collaboration “Cracking the
Glass Problem,” of which the authors are some of the principal investigators. While the …

We show numerically that a three-dimensional model for structural glass displays aging,
rejuvenation, and memory effects when subjected to a temperature cycle. These effects …

We numerically analyze the landscape governing the evolution of the vibrational dynamics
of hard disk glasses as the density increases towards jamming. We find that the dynamics …

Experimental evidence for the Gardner transition, theoretically predicted to arise deep in the
glassy state of matter, is scarce. At this transition, the energy landscape sensed by the …

Plastic events in sheared glasses are considered an example of so-called avalanches,
whose sizes obey a power-law probability distribution with the avalanche critical exponent τ …

A novel form of amorphous matter characterized by marginal stability was recently
discovered in the mean-field theory of structural glasses. Using this approach, we provide …

By decreasing the rate of physical vapor deposition, ZrCuAl metallic glasses with improved
stability and mechanical performances can be formed, while the microscopic structural …

The Gardner transition is the transition that at mean-field level separates a stable glass
phase from a marginally stable phase. This transition has similarities with the de Almeida …

Amorphous solids have excess soft modes in addition to the phonon modes described by
the Debye theory. Recent numerical results show that if the phonon modes are carefully …

Motivated by the mean field prediction of a Gardner phase transition between a “normal
glass” and a “marginally stable glass”, we investigate the off-equilibrium dynamics of three …