Many questions of fundamental interest in today's science can be formulated as inference
problems: some partial, or noisy, observations are performed over a set of variables and the …

Despite decades of work, gaining a first-principles understanding of amorphous materials
remains an extremely challenging problem. However, recent theoretical breakthroughs have …

Understanding the physics of glass formation remains one of the major unsolved challenges
of condensed matter science. As a material solidifies into a glass, it exhibits a spectacular …

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 …

Fickian yet non-Gaussian diffusion (FnGD), a most intriguing open issue in soft matter, is
generically associated with some dynamical and/or structural heterogeneity of the …

Brownian motion and viscoelastic anomalous diffusion in homogeneous environments are
intrinsically Gaussian processes. In a growing number of systems, however, non-Gaussian …

Transport coefficients, such as viscosity or diffusion coefficient, show significant dependence
on density or temperature near the glass transition. Although several theories have been …

Active glassy matter has recently emerged as a novel class of non-equilibrium soft matter,
combining energy-driven, active particle movement with dense and disordered glass-like …

Liquids relax extremely slowly on approaching the glass state. One explanation is that an
entropy crisis, because of the rarefaction of available states, makes it increasingly arduous …

Low-temperature properties of crystalline solids can be understood using harmonic
perturbations around a perfect lattice, as in Debye's theory. Low-temperature properties of …