Glasses and aging: A Statistical Mechanics Perspective
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2006.09725,
title = {Glasses and aging: A Statistical Mechanics Perspective},
author = {Francesco Arceri and François P. Landes and Ludovic Berthier and Giulio Biroli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.09725},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
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