Theory of simple glasses
Statistical Mechanics
2012-12-04 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Abstract
This manuscript has been prepared as a thesis to obtain the French "Habilitation \`a diriger des recherches (HDR)" which allows one to supervise PhD students. I review here my work on the glass and jamming transition. I tried to explain this subject in a concise and self-contained way, highlighting what I consider the main motivations for its study and trying to put my work in a broader perspective. Basically I tried to tell this story in the same way as I would tell it to a student who contacted me to start a PhD thesis on these topics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1212.0390,
title = {Theory of simple glasses},
author = {Francesco Zamponi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.0390},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Thesis written to obtain the French "Habilitation \`a diriger des recherches (HDR)"