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 …

Key to resolving the scientific challenge of the glass transition is to understand the origin of
the massive increase in viscosity of liquids cooled below their melting temperature (avoiding …

It is now well established that glasses feature quasilocalized nonphononic excitations—
coined “soft spots”—, which follow a universal ω 4 density of states in the limit of low …

We analyze numerically the training dynamics of deep neural networks (DNN) by using
methods developed in statistical physics of glassy systems. The two main issues we address …

Equilibrium sampling of the configuration space in disordered systems requires algorithms
that bypass the glassy slowing down of the physical dynamics. Irreversible Monte Carlo …

The response of amorphous materials to an applied strain can be continuous or instead
discontinuous if the initial configuration is very stable. We study theoretically how such a …

It was recently demonstrated that a simple Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm involving the swap of
particle pairs dramatically accelerates the equilibrium sampling of simulated supercooled …

We present a model and protocol that enable the generation of extremely stable computer
glasses at minimal computational cost. The protocol consists of an instantaneous quench in …

We start with a few concise definitions of the most important concepts discussed in this entry.
Glass transition For molecular liquids, the glass transition denotes a crossover from a …

We study the glass transition by exploring a broad class of kinetic rules that can significantly
modify the normal dynamics of supercooled liquids while maintaining thermal equilibrium …