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 …

Supercooled liquids for pedestrians

A Cavagna - Physics Reports, 2009 - Elsevier
When we lower the temperature of a liquid, at some point we meet a first order phase
transition to the crystal. Yet, under certain conditions it is possible to keep the system in its …

Energy flow, partial equilibration, and effective temperatures in systems with slow dynamics

LF Cugliandolo, J Kurchan, L Peliti - Physical Review E, 1997 - APS
We show that, in nonequilibrium systems with small heat flows, there is a time-scale-
dependent effective temperature that plays the same role as the thermodynamical …

Spin-glass theory for pedestrians

T Castellani, A Cavagna - Journal of Statistical Mechanics …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
In these notes the main theoretical concepts and techniques in the field of mean-field spin
glasses are reviewed in a compact and pedagogical way, for the benefit of the graduate and …

Models of traps and glass phenomenology

C Monthus, JP Bouchaud - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical …, 1996 - iopscience.iop.org
We study various models of independent particles hop** between energytraps' with a
density of energy barriers, on a d-dimensional lattice or on a fully connected lattice. If decays …

The ergodic side of the many‐body localization transition

DJ Luitz, YB Lev - Annalen der Physik, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies point towards nontriviality of the ergodic phase in systems exhibiting many‐
body localization (MBL), which shows subexponential relaxation of local observables …

The frustration-based approach of supercooled liquids and the glass transition: a review and critical assessment

G Tarjus, SA Kivelson, Z Nussinov… - Journal of Physics …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the most spectacular phenomena in physics in terms of dynamical range is the glass
transition and the associated slowing down of flow and relaxation with decreasing …

Recent applications of dynamical mean-field methods

LF Cugliandolo - Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Rich out-of-equilibrium collective dynamics of strongly interacting large assemblies emerge
in many areas of science. Some intriguing and not fully understood examples are the glassy …

Mode-coupling theory and the glass transition in supercooled liquids

SP Das - Reviews of modern physics, 2004 - APS
Mode-coupling theory is an approach to the study of complex behavior in the supercooled
liquids which developed from the idea of a nonlinear feedback mechanism. From the …

Static and dynamic properties of a viscous silica melt

J Horbach, W Kob - Physical Review B, 1999 - APS
We present the results of a large scale molecular dynamics computer simulation in which we
investigated the static and dynamic properties of a silica melt in the temperature range in …