Theoretical perspective on the glass transition and amorphous materials

L Berthier, G Biroli - Reviews of modern physics, 2011 - APS
A theoretical perspective is provided on the glass transition in molecular liquids at thermal
equilibrium, on the spatially heterogeneous and aging dynamics of disordered materials …

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 …

Viscosity of glass-forming liquids

JC Mauro, Y Yue, AJ Ellison… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The low-temperature dynamics of ultraviscous liquids hold the key to understanding the
nature of glass transition and relaxation phenomena, including the potential existence of an …

First-order dynamical phase transition in models of glasses: an approach based on ensembles of histories

JP Garrahan, RL Jack, V Lecomte… - Journal of Physics A …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the dynamics of kinetically constrained models of glass formers by analysing
the statistics of trajectories of the dynamics, or histories, using large deviation function …

Transport properties of glass-forming liquids suggest that dynamic crossover temperature is as important as the glass transition temperature

F Mallamace, C Branca, C Corsaro… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
It is becoming common practice to partition glass-forming liquids into two classes based on
the dependence of the shear viscosity η on temperature T. In an Arrhenius plot, ln η vs 1/T, a …

Quantum slow relaxation and metastability due to dynamical constraints

Z Lan, M van Horssen, S Powell, JP Garrahan - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
One of the general mechanisms that give rise to the slow cooperative relaxation
characteristic of classical glasses is the presence of kinetic constraints in the dynamics. Here …

Connection of translational and rotational dynamical heterogeneities with the breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein and Stokes-Einstein-Debye relations in water

MG Mazza, N Giovambattista, HE Stanley… - Physical Review E …, 2007 - APS
We study the Stokes-Einstein (SE) and the Stokes-Einstein-Debye (SED) relations, D t= k
BT∕ 6 π η R and D r= k BT∕ 8 π η R 3, where D t and D r are the translational and …

Fractional Stokes-Einstein and Debye-Stokes-Einstein relations in a network-forming liquid

SR Becker, PH Poole, FW Starr - Physical review letters, 2006 - APS
We study the breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein (SE) and Debye-Stokes-Einstein (DSE)
relations for translational and rotational motion in a prototypical model of a network-forming …

Point-defect avalanches mediate grain boundary diffusion

I Chesser, Y Mishin - Communications Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Grain boundary diffusion in polycrystalline materials is a physical phenomenon of great
fundamental interest and practical significance. Although accelerated atomic transport along …

50th Anniversary Perspective: Putting the Squeeze on Polymers: A Perspective on Polymer Thin Films and Interfaces

TP Russell, Y Chai - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
Polymeric materials, used predominantly in their bulk form, are now finding increasing
application as thin films or where the end-use dimensions are approaching the size of the …