First Steps in Glass Theory
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Materials Science
Abstract
This paper is an introduction to some of the main present issues in the theory of structural glasses. After recalling a few experimental facts, it gives a short account of the analogy between fragile glasses and the mean field discontinuous spin glasses. The many valley picture is presented, and a brief account of recent attempts to obtain quantitative results from first principle computations is summarised.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0005173,
title = {First Steps in Glass Theory},
author = {Marc Mezard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0005173},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
15 pages, 7 figures, prepared for the Proceedings of the 2000 Aspen workshop "50 years of Condensed Matter Physics"