The role of local structure in dynamical arrest

CP Royall, SR Williams - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
Amorphous solids, or glasses, are distinguished from crystalline solids by their lack of long-
range structural order. At the level of two-body structural correlations, glassformers show no …

Growing length scales and their relation to timescales in glass-forming liquids

S Karmakar, C Dasgupta, S Sastry - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The question of whether the dramatic slowing down of the dynamics of glass-forming liquids
near the structural glass transition is caused by the growth of one or more correlation lengths …

Perspective: The glass transition

G Biroli, JP Garrahan - The Journal of chemical physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We provide here a brief perspective on the glass transition field. It is an assessment, written
from the point of view of theory, of where the field is and where it seems to be heading. We …

Predicting dynamic heterogeneity in glass-forming liquids by physics-inspired machine learning

G Jung, G Biroli, L Berthier - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We introduce GlassMLP, a machine learning framework using physics-inspired structural
input to predict the long-time dynamics in deeply supercooled liquids. We apply this deep …

Autonomously revealing hidden local structures in supercooled liquids

E Boattini, S Marín-Aguilar, S Mitra, G Foffi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Few questions in condensed matter science have proven as difficult to unravel as the
interplay between structure and dynamics in supercooled liquids. To explore this link, much …

Averaging local structure to predict the dynamic propensity in supercooled liquids

E Boattini, F Smallenburg, L Filion - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Predicting the local dynamics of supercooled liquids based purely on local structure is a key
challenge in our quest for understanding glassy materials. Recent years have seen an …

Identification of structure in condensed matter with the topological cluster classification

A Malins, SR Williams, J Eggers… - The Journal of chemical …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We describe the topological cluster classification (TCC) algorithm. The TCC detects local
structures with bond topologies similar to isolated clusters which minimise the potential …

Crystal nucleation as the ordering of multiple order parameters

J Russo, H Tanaka - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Nucleation is an activated process in which the system has to overcome a free energy
barrier in order for a first-order phase transition between the metastable and the stable …

Dimensionality reduction of local structure in glassy binary mixtures

D Coslovich, RL Jack, J Paret - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We consider unsupervised learning methods for characterizing the disordered microscopic
structure of supercooled liquids and glasses. Specifically, we perform dimensionality …

Real space analysis of colloidal gels: Triumphs, challenges and future directions

CP Royall, MA Faers, SL Fussell… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Colloidal gels constitute an important class of materials found in many contexts and with a
wide range of applications. Yet as matter far from equilibrium, gels exhibit a variety of time …