Recent experiments show that supercooled liquids around the glass transition temperature
are “dynamically heterogeneous”[H. Sillescu, J. Non-Cryst. Solids 243, 81 (1999)]. Such …

The routine transformation of a liquid, as it is rapidly cooled, resulting in glass formation, is
remarkably complex. A theoretical explanation of the dynamics associated with this process …

We propose a stochastic model equation for the density variable which is intended for slow
dynamics occurring in supercooled liquids and dense colloidal suspensions near glass …

The simplicity of hard spheres as a model system is deceptive. Although the particles
interact solely through volume exclusion, that nevertheless suffices for a wealth of static and …

Dynamics near the surface of glasses is generally much faster than in the bulk. Neglecting
static perturbations of structure at the surface, we use random first order transition (RFOT) …

The aperiodic crystal picture associates the glass transition with freezing into a nonperiodic
structure. Dynamics in the glassy state involves activated jumps between different aperiodic …

The relationship between short-range icosahedral order in metallic glasses and long-range
order in icosahedral crystals is explored. Metallic-glass structure factors are assumed to …

A density functional theory for polymer fluids is derived. The form of the theory is identical to
a continuum self-consistent-field theory but we show that with the correct" mean field," the …

A free-energy model for the inhomogeneous hard-sphere fluid mixture was derived recently
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 980 (1989)], which is based on the fundamental geometric measures of …

A recently proposed microscopic activated barrier hopping theory [KS Schweizer and EJ
Saltzman, J. Chem. Phys. 119, 1181 (2003)] of slow single-particle dynamics in glassy …