Colloquium: Random first order transition theory concepts in biology and physics

TR Kirkpatrick, D Thirumalai - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015‏ - APS
The routine transformation of a liquid, as it is rapidly cooled, resulting in glass formation, is
remarkably complex. A theoretical explanation of the dynamics associated with this process …

The race to the bottom: approaching the ideal glass?

CP Royall, F Turci, S Tatsumi, J Russo… - Journal of Physics …, 2018‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Key to resolving the scientific challenge of the glass transition is to understand the origin of
the massive increase in viscosity of liquids cooled below their melting temperature (avoiding …

Multidimensional stationary probability distribution for interacting active particles

C Maggi, UMB Marconi, N Gnan, R Di Leonardo - Scientific reports, 2015‏ - nature.com
We derive the stationary probability distribution for a non-equilibrium system composed by
an arbitrary number of degrees of freedom that are subject to Gaussian colored noise and a …

Active topological glass

J Smrek, I Chubak, CN Likos, K Kremer - Nature communications, 2020‏ - nature.com
The glass transition in soft matter systems is generally triggered by an increase in packing
fraction or a decrease in temperature. It has been conjectured that the internal topology of …

A topologically driven glass in ring polymers

D Michieletto, MS Turner - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2016‏ - pnas.org
The static and dynamic properties of ring polymers in concentrated solutions remains one of
the last deep unsolved questions in polymer physics. At the same time, the nature of the …

Glasses and aging, A statistical mechanics perspective on

F Arceri, FP Landes, L Berthier, G Biroli - Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 2022‏ - Springer
We start with a few concise definitions of the most important concepts discussed in this entry.
Glass transition For molecular liquids, the glass transition denotes a crossover from a …

Probing a liquid to glass transition in equilibrium

W Kob, L Berthier - Physical review letters, 2013‏ - APS
We use computer simulations to investigate the static properties of a simple glass-forming
fluid in which the positions of a finite fraction of the particles have been frozen. By probing …

Glassiness and heterogeneous dynamics in dense solutions of ring polymers

D Michieletto, N Nahali, A Rosa - Physical review letters, 2017‏ - APS
Understanding how topological constraints affect the dynamics of polymers in solution is at
the basis of any polymer theory and it is particularly needed for melts of rings. These …

[HTML][HTML] Active Brownian particles in random and porous environments

F Moore, J Russo, TB Liverpool… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023‏ - pubs.aip.org
The transport of active particles may occur in complex environments, in which it emerges
from the interplay between the mobility of the active components and the quenched disorder …

Probing the non-Debye low-frequency excitations in glasses through random pinning

L Angelani, M Paoluzzi, G Parisi, G Ruocco - Proceedings of the National …, 2018‏ - pnas.org
We investigate the properties of the low-frequency spectrum in the density of states D (ω) of
a 3D model glass former. To magnify the non-Debye sector of the spectrum, we introduce a …