Glasses and aging: A Statistical Mechanics Perspective

Autor:	Arceri, Francesco, Landes, François P., Berthier, Ludovic, Biroli, Giulio
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics Condensed Matter - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	We review the field of the glass transition, glassy dynamics and aging from a statistical mechanics perspective. We give a brief introduction to the subject and explain the main phenomenology encountered in glassy systems, with a particular emphasis on spatially heterogeneous dynamics. We review the main theoretical approaches currently available to account for these glassy phenomena, including recent developments regarding mean-field theory of liquids and glasses, novel computational tools, and connections to the jamming transition. Finally, the physics of aging and off-equilibrium dynamics exhibited by glassy materials is discussed. Comment: 50 pages, 24 figs. This is an updated version of a chapter initially written in 2009 for the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science (Springer). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1011.2578
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09725 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv