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

When a system jams, it undergoes a transition from a flowing to a rigid state. Despite this
important change in the dynamics, the internal structure of the system remains disordered in …

We combine the swap Monte Carlo algorithm to long multi-CPU molecular dynamics
simulations to analyze the equilibrium relaxation dynamics of model supercooled liquids …

Glasses are amorphous solids whose constituent particles are caged by their neighbours
and thus cannot flow. This sluggishness is often ascribed to the free energy landscape …

Supercooled liquids and glasses are important for current and developing technologies.
Here we provide perspective on recent progress in this field. The interpretation of …

We provide here a brief perspective on the glass transition field. It is an assessment, written
from the point of view of theory, of where the field is and where it seems to be heading. We …

We report an analytical study of the vibrational spectrum of the simplest model of jamming,
the soft perceptron. We identify two distinct classes of soft modes. The first kind of modes are …

Connectedness and applied stress strongly affect elasticity in solids. In various amorphous
materials, mechanical stability can be lost either by reducing connectedness or by …

It is now well established that structural glasses possess disorder-and frustration-induced
soft quasilocalized excitations, which play key roles in various glassy phenomena. Recent …

We revisit the concept of marginal stability in glasses and determine its range of applicability
in the context of an avalanche-type response to slow external driving. We argue that there is …