Modern computational studies of the glass transition

L Berthier, DR Reichman - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The physics of the glass transition and amorphous materials continues to attract the attention
of a wide research community after decades of effort. Supercooled liquids and glasses have …

Revealing key structural features hidden in liquids and glasses

H Tanaka, H Tong, R Shi, J Russo - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
A great success of solid state physics comes from the characterization of crystal structures in
the reciprocal (wave vector) space. The power of structural characterization in Fourier space …

Thirty milliseconds in the life of a supercooled liquid

C Scalliet, B Guiselin, L Berthier - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
We combine the swap Monte Carlo algorithm to long multi-CPU molecular dynamics
simulations to analyze the equilibrium relaxation dynamics of model supercooled liquids …

Perspective: Highly stable vapor-deposited glasses

MD Ediger - The Journal of chemical physics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
This article describes recent progress in understanding highly stable glasses prepared by
physical vapor deposition and provides perspective on further research directions for the …

Low-frequency vibrational modes of stable glasses

L Wang, A Ninarello, P Guan, L Berthier… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Unusual features of the vibrational density of states D (ω) of glasses allow one to rationalize
their peculiar low-temperature properties. Simulational studies of D (ω) have been restricted …

Microscopic origin of excess wings in relaxation spectra of supercooled liquids

B Guiselin, C Scalliet, L Berthier - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Glass formation is encountered in diverse materials. Experiments have revealed that the
dynamic relaxation spectra of supercooled liquids generically become asymmetric near the …

Configurational entropy of glass-forming liquids

L Berthier, M Ozawa, C Scalliet - The Journal of chemical physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The configurational entropy is one of the most important thermodynamic quantities
characterizing supercooled liquids approaching the glass transition. Despite decades of …

Colloidal hard spheres: Triumphs, challenges and mysteries

CP Royall, P Charbonneau, M Dijkstra, J Russo… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
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 …

Polymer glass formation: Role of activation free energy, configurational entropy, and collective motion

WS Xu, JF Douglas, ZY Sun - Macromolecules, 2021 - ACS Publications
We provide a perspective on polymer glass formation, with an emphasis on models in which
the fluid entropy and collective particle motion dominate the theoretical description and data …

Experimental test of a predicted dynamics–structure–thermodynamics connection in molecularly complex glass-forming liquids

B Mei, Y Zhou, KS Schweizer - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding in a unified manner the generic and chemically specific aspects of activated
dynamics in diverse glass-forming liquids over 14 or more decades in time is a grand …