Understanding slow and heterogeneous dynamics in model supercooled glass-forming liquids

I Tah, A Mutneja, S Karmakar - ACS omega, 2021 - ACS Publications
Glasses are ubiquitous in nature. Many common items such as ketchups, cosmetic products,
toothpaste, etc. and metallic glasses are examples of such glassy materials whose …

Fragility in glassy liquids: A structural approach based on machine learning

I Tah, SA Ridout, AJ Liu - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The rapid rise of viscosity or relaxation time upon supercooling is a universal hallmark of
glassy liquids. The temperature dependence of viscosity, however, is quite nonuniversal for …

Invariance of the relation between α relaxation and β relaxation in metallic glasses to variations of pressure and temperature

B Wang, ZY Zhou, PF Guan, HB Yu, WH Wang… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Dielectric relaxation experiments performed at ambient and elevated pressures P in
molecular, ionic, and polymeric glass formers have established that the relation of the Johari …

A geometry-enhanced graph neural network for learning the smoothness of glassy dynamics from static structure

X Jiang, Z Tian, K Li, W Hu - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Modeling the dynamics of glassy systems has been challenging in physics for several
decades. Recent studies have shown the efficacy of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in …

Clarifying the nature of the Johari-Goldstein β-relaxation and emphasising its fundamental importance

KL Ngai, S Capaccioli, M Paluch… - Philosophical …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Since 1998 the primitive relaxation time τ 0 (T, P) of the Coupling Model (CM) and the Johari-
Goldstein (JG) β-relaxation time τJG (T, P) are shown approximately equal in many glass …

Enhanced short time peak in four-point dynamic susceptibility in dense active glass-forming liquids

S Dey, A Mutneja, S Karmakar - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Active glassy systems are simple model systems that imitate complex biological processes.
Sometimes, it becomes crucial to estimate the amount of activity present in such biological …

Kinetic fragility directly correlates with the many-body static amorphous order in glass-forming liquids

I Tah, S Karmakar - Physical Review Materials, 2022 - APS
The term “fragility” describes the rate at which viscosity grows when a supercooled liquid
approaches its putative glass transition temperature. The field of glassy materials is actively …

Microscopic understanding of the Johari-Goldstein relaxation gained from nuclear -resonance time-domain-interferometry experiments

KL Ngai - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
Traditionally the study of dynamics of glass-forming materials has been focused on the
structural α relaxation. However, in recent years experimental evidence has revealed that a …

Machine learning that predicts well may not learn the correct physical descriptions of glassy systems

A Swain, SA Ridout, I Nemenman - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
The complexity of glasses makes it challenging to explain their dynamics. Machine learning
(ML) has emerged as a promising pathway for understanding glassy dynamics by linking …

Dynamical heterogeneity in active glasses is inherently different from its equilibrium behavior

K Paul, A Mutneja, SK Nandi… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Activity-driven glassy dynamics, while ubiquitous in collective cell migration, intracellular
transport, dynamics in bacterial and ant colonies, etc., also extends the scope and extent of …