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 …

Elasticity, facilitation, and dynamic heterogeneity in glass-forming liquids

M Ozawa, G Biroli - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We study the role of elasticity-induced facilitation on the dynamics of glass-forming liquids by
a coarse-grained two-dimensional model in which local relaxation events, taking place by …

Relevance of shear transformations in the relaxation of supercooled liquids

M Lerbinger, A Barbot, D Vandembroucq, S Patinet - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
While deeply supercooled liquids exhibit divergent viscosity and increasingly
heterogeneous dynamics as the temperature drops, their structure shows only seemingly …

Intermittent relaxation and avalanches in extremely persistent active matter

YE Keta, R Mandal, P Sollich, RL Jack, L Berthier - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We use numerical simulations to study the dynamics of dense assemblies of self-propelled
particles in the limit of extremely large, but finite, persistence times. In this limit, the system …

Strong nonexponential relaxation and memory effects in a fluid with nonlinear drag

A Patrón, B Sánchez-Rey, A Prados - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We analyze the dynamical evolution of a fluid with nonlinear drag, for which binary collisions
are elastic, described at the kinetic level by the Enskog-Fokker-Planck equation. This model …

Gradient descent dynamics and the jamming transition in infinite dimensions

A Manacorda, F Zamponi - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Gradient descent dynamics in complex energy landscapes, ie featuring multiple minima,
finds application in many different problems, from soft matter to machine learning. Here, we …

On weak ergodicity breaking in mean-field spin glasses

G Folena, F Zamponi - SciPost Physics, 2023 - scipost.org
The weak ergodicity breaking hypothesis postulates that out-of-equilibrium glassy systems
lose memory of their initial state despite being unable to reach an equilibrium stationary …

Universal origin of glassy relaxation as recognized by configuration pattern matching

HB Yu, L Gao, JQ Gao, K Samwer - National Science Review, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Relaxation processes are crucial for understanding the structural rearrangements of liquids
and amorphous materials. However, the overarching principle that governs these processes …

Jamming, relaxation, and memory in a minimally structured glass former

P Charbonneau, PK Morse - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Structural glasses form through various out-of-equilibrium processes, including temperature
quenches, rapid compression (crunches), and shear. Although each of these processes …

Computer simulations of the glass transition and glassy materials

JL Barrat, L Berthier - Comptes …, 2023 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
We provide an overview of the different types of computational techniques developed over
the years to study supercooled liquids, glassy materials and the physics of the glass …