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Dusty plasma is a mixture of ions, electrons, and macroscopic charged particles that is commonly found in space and planetary environments. The particles interact through Coulomb forces mediated by the surrounding plasma, and as a result,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Wentao Yu , Eslam Abdelaleem , Ilya Nemenman , Justin C. Burton

Machine learning has the potential to accelerate materials discovery by accurately predicting materials properties at a low computational cost. However, the model inputs remain a key stumbling block. Current methods typically use…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 Rhys E. A. Goodall , Alpha A. Lee

Machine learning is poised as a very powerful tool that can drastically improve our ability to carry out scientific research. However, many issues need to be addressed before this becomes a reality. This article focuses on one particular…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Weinan E , Jiequn Han , Linfeng Zhang

Spin glasses occupy a unique place in condensed matter: they freeze collectively while remaining struc-turally disordered, and they exhibit slow, history-dependent dynamics that reflect an exceptionally rug-ged free-energy landscape. This…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-25 Naeimeh Tahriri , Vahid Mahdikhah , Jahanfar Abouie , Daryoosh Vashaee

Exploring structural order in disordered systems including liquids and glasses is an intriguing but challenging issue in condensed matter physics. Here we construct a new parameter based on the angular distribution function of particles and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-11 Xiunan Yang , Wei-Hua Wang , Ke Chen

Being able to predict the failure of materials based on structural information is a fundamental issue with enormous practical and industrial relevance for the monitoring of devices and components. Thanks to recent advances in deep learning,…

Disorder has been long considered as a formidable foe of theoretical physicists in their attempts to understand system's behavior. Here, we review recently accumulated data and propose that from the point of view of calculating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-08-28 V. V. Brazhkin , K. Trachenko

Physics-informed machine learning (PIML), referring to the combination of prior knowledge of physics, which is the high level abstraction of natural phenomenons and human behaviours in the long history, with data-driven machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Chuizheng Meng , Sungyong Seo , Defu Cao , Sam Griesemer , Yan Liu

Nonlinear models and optimization methods have successfully tackled a rapidly growing set of problems in recent years. Indeed, a relatively small toolbox of such models and methods can provide sufficient performance across a large landscape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Akshunna S. Dogra

Ultrastable glasses, amorphous solids with exceptionally low-energy states and enhanced kinetic, thermodynamic and mechanical stability, have long been a subject of intense experimental interest. Over the past decade, their computational…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-05 Fabio Leoni , Misaki Ozawa , John Russo , Taiki Yanagishima , Andrea Ninarello

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 metastable phase and to avoid crystallization. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-12 Andrea Cavagna

This key-issues review is a plea for a new focus on simpler and more realistic models of glass-forming fluids. It seems to me that we have too often been led astray by sophisticated mathematical models that beautifully capture some of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. S. Langer

We introduce a new measure of the structure of a liquid which is the softness of the mean-field potential developed by us earlier. We find that this softness is sensitive to small changes in the structure. We then study its correlation with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-26 Manoj Kumar Nandi , Sarika Maitra Bhattacharyya

Liquids relax extremely slowly upon approaching the glass state. One explanation is that an entropy crisis, due to the rarefaction of available states, makes it increasingly arduous to reach equilibrium in that regime. Validating this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-08 Ludovic Berthier , Patrick Charbonneau , Daniele Coslovich , Andrea Ninarello , Misaki Ozawa , Sho Yaida

All liquids are topologically disordered materials; however, the degree of disorder can vary as a result of internal fluctuations in structure and topology. These fluctuations depend on both the composition and temperature of the system.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-15 Katelyn A. Kirchner , Seong H. Kim , John C. Mauro

The difficult problem of relating the static structure of glassy liquids and their dynamics is a good target for Machine Learning, an approach which excels at finding complex patterns hidden in data. Indeed, this approach is currently a hot…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-29 Francesco Saverio Pezzicoli , Guillaume Charpiat , François P. Landes

Understanding the physics of supercooled liquids near glassy transition remains one of the major challenges in condensed matter science. There has been long recognized that supercooled liquids have spatially dynamical heterogeneity whose…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-10 Viet Nguyen , Xueyu Song

Learning and reasoning about physical phenomena is still a challenge in robotics development, and computational sciences play a capital role in the search for accurate methods able to provide explanations for past events and rigorous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Beatriz Moya , Alberto Badias , David Gonzalez , Francisco Chinesta , Elias Cueto

Dynamical systems that evolve continuously over time are ubiquitous throughout science and engineering. Machine learning (ML) provides data-driven approaches to model and predict the dynamics of such systems. A core issue with this approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Aditi S. Krishnapriyan , Alejandro F. Queiruga , N. Benjamin Erichson , Michael W. Mahoney

Materials and machines are often designed with particular goals in mind, so that they exhibit desired responses to given forces or constraints. Here we explore an alternative approach, namely physical coupled learning. In this paradigm, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-07 Menachem Stern , Daniel Hexner , Jason W. Rocks , Andrea J. Liu