Atomic structure dictates the performance of all materials systems; the characteristic of
disordered materials is the significance of spatial and temporal fluctuations on composition …

X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) enables the study of sample dynamics
between micrometer and atomic length scales. As a coherent scattering technique, it …

The recent discovery of non-classical crystal nucleation pathways has revealed the role of
fluctuations in the liquid structural order, not considered in classical nucleation theory. On …

Liquids and solids are two fundamental states of matter. However, our understanding of their
three-dimensional atomic structure is mostly based on physical models. Here we use atomic …

Two or more liquid states may exist even for single-component substances, which is known
as liquid polymorphism, and the transition between them is called liquid–liquid transition …

The first-order phase transition between two tetrahedral networks of different density—
introduced as a hypothesis to account for the anomalous behaviour of certain …

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 …

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 …

We provide a theoretical description of dynamical heterogeneities in glass-forming liquids,
based on the premise that relaxation occurs via local rearrangements coupled by elasticity …

It is believed that the slow liquid diffusion and geometric frustration brought by a rapid, deep
quench inhibit fast crystallization and promote vitrification. Here we report fast crystal growth …