Scaling description of dynamical heterogeneity and avalanches of relaxation in glass-forming liquids

A Tahaei, G Biroli, M Ozawa, M Popović, M Wyart - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
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 …

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 …

Direct imaging of the kinetic crystallization pathway: simulation and liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy observations

Z Xu, Z Ou - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
The crystallization of materials from a suspension determines the structure and function of
the final product, and numerous pieces of evidence have pointed out that the classical …

Finding defects in glasses through machine learning

S Ciarella, D Khomenko, L Berthier, FC Mocanu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Structural defects control the kinetic, thermodynamic and mechanical properties of glasses.
For instance, rare quantum tunneling two-level systems (TLS) govern the physics of glasses …

Machine learning molecular dynamics reveals the structural origin of the first sharp diffraction peak in high-density silica glasses

K Kobayashi, M Okumura, H Nakamura, M Itakura… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The first sharp diffraction peak (FSDP) in the total structure factor has long been regarded as
a characteristic feature of medium-range order (MRO) in amorphous materials with a …

Improving the prediction of glassy dynamics by pinpointing the local cage

RM Alkemade, F Smallenburg, L Filion - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The relationship between structure and dynamics in glassy fluids remains an intriguing open
question. Recent work has shown impressive advances in our ability to predict local …

A deep learning approach to the measurement of long-lived memory kernels from generalized Langevin dynamics

M Kerr Winter, I Pihlajamaa, VE Debets… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Memory effects are ubiquitous in a wide variety of complex physical phenomena, ranging
from glassy dynamics and metamaterials to climate models. The Generalized Langevin …

Building a “trap model” of glassy dynamics from a local structural predictor of rearrangements

SA Ridout, I Tah, AJ Liu - Europhysics Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Here we introduce a variation of the trap model of supercooled liquids based on softness, a
particle-based variable identified by machine learning that quantifies the local structural …

Dynamics of supercooled liquids from static averaged quantities using machine learning

S Ciarella, M Chiappini, E Boattini… - Machine Learning …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce a machine-learning approach to predict the complex non-Markovian dynamics
of supercooled liquids from static averaged quantities. Compared to techniques based on …

Dynamic heterogeneity at the experimental glass transition predicted by transferable machine learning

G Jung, G Biroli, L Berthier - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We develop a machine learning model, which predicts structural relaxation from amorphous
supercooled liquid structures. The trained networks are able to predict dynamic …