Glasses and aging: A Statistical Mechanics Perspective
Year: 2020
Type: preprint
Abstract: 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.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Institutions: University of Oregon, Université Paris-Sud, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique, Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, École Normale Supérieure - PSL, Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure
Language: English
Subfield: Materials Chemistry
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4287755764