The Random First Order Transition (RFOT) theory started with the pioneering work of
Kirkpatrick, Thirumalai and Wolynes. It leverages methods and advances of the theory of …

Enormous enhancement in the viscosity of a liquid near its glass transition is a hallmark of
glass transition. Within a class of theoretical frameworks, it is connected to growing many …

The role of fixed degrees of freedom in soft or granular matter systems has broad
applicability and theoretical interest. Here we address questions of the geometrical role that …

We present block analysis, an efficient method of performing finite-size scaling for obtaining
the length scale of dynamic heterogeneity and the point-to-set length scale for generic glass …

The steep increase of the relaxation time of glass forming liquids upon cooling is traditionally
ascribed to an impending entropy crisis: since the system has" nowhere to go", dynamics …

Amorphous solids are known to fail catastrophically via fracture, and cavitation at nano-
metric scales is known to play a significant role in such a failure process. Micro-alloying via …

Using numerical simulations, we have studied the yielding response, in the athermal
quasistatic limit, of a model amorphous material having inclusions in the form of randomly …

We use energy landscape methods to investigate the response of a supercooled liquid to
random pinning. We classify the structural similarity of different energy minima using a …

Probing dynamic and static correlations in glass-forming supercooled liquids has been a
challenge for decades despite extensive research. Dynamic correlation, which manifests …

Strained amorphous solids often fail mechanically by creating a shear band. It had been
understood that the shear-banding instability is usefully described as crossing a spinodal …