Freezing of polydisperse hard spheres

R McRae, ADJ Haymet - The Journal of chemical physics, 1988 - pubs.aip.org
Modern density functional theory is used to study the freezing of a polydisperse liquid of
hard spheres into both face centered cubic (fcc) and hexagonally close packed (hcp) …

Mean-field caging in a random Lorentz gas

G Biroli, P Charbonneau, Y Hu, H Ikeda… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The random Lorentz gas (RLG) is a minimal model of both percolation and glassiness,
which leads to a paradox in the infinite-dimensional, d→∞ limit: the localization transition is …

Dynamics in inhomogeneous liquids and glasses via the test particle limit

AJ Archer, P Hopkins, M Schmidt - … Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2007 - APS
We show that one may view the self-part and the distinct-part of the van Hove dynamic
correlation function of a simple fluid as the one-body density distributions of a binary mixture …

Modeling multiple time scales during glass formation with phase-field crystals

J Berry, M Grant - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
The dynamics of glass formation in monatomic and binary liquids are studied numerically
using a microscopic field theory for the evolution of the time-averaged atomic number …

Solidification in soft-core fluids: Disordered solids from fast solidification fronts

AJ Archer, MC Walters, U Thiele, E Knobloch - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
Using dynamical density functional theory we calculate the speed of solidification fronts
advancing into a quenched two-dimensional model fluid of soft-core particles. We find that …

Is glass a state of matter?

B Guiselin, G Tarjus, L Berthier - Physics and Chemistry of …, 2022 - ingentaconnect.com
Glass is everywhere. We use and are surrounded by glass objects which make tangible the
reality of glass as a distinct state of matter. Yet, glass as we know it is usually obtained by …

The glass transition in molecules, colloids and grains: universality and specificity

O Dauchot, F Ladieu, CP Royall - Comptes …, 2023 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
We highlight certain key achievements in experimental work on molecular, colloidal and
granular glassformers. This short review considers these three classes of experimental …

Dynamical theory of shear bands in structural glasses

A Wisitsorasak, PG Wolynes - Proceedings of the National …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The heterogeneous elastoplastic deformation of structural glasses is explored using the
framework of the random first-order transition theory of the glass transition along with an …

Activated events in glasses: The structure of entropic droplets

M Dzero, J Schmalian, PG Wolynes - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2005 - APS
Using an effective potential approach, we present a replica instanton theory for the dynamics
of entropic droplets in glassy systems. Replica symmetry breaking in the droplet interface …

An overview of the theories of the glass transition

G Tarjus - Dynamical heterogeneities in glasses, colloids, and …, 2011 - books.google.com
The topic of the glass transition gives rise to aa wide diversity of views. It is, accordingly,
characterized by a lack of agreement on which would be the most profitable theoretical …