Modern computational studies of the glass transition

L Berthier, DR Reichman - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

Solid-that-Flows Picture of Glass-Forming Liquids

JC Dyre - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
This perspective article reviews arguments that glass-forming liquids are different from those
of standard liquid-state theory, which typically have a viscosity in the mPa· s range and …

Predicting dynamic heterogeneity in glass-forming liquids by physics-inspired machine learning

G Jung, G Biroli, L Berthier - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We introduce GlassMLP, a machine learning framework using physics-inspired structural
input to predict the long-time dynamics in deeply supercooled liquids. We apply this deep …

Scaling description of dynamical heterogeneity and avalanches of relaxation in glass-forming liquids

A Tahaei, G Biroli, M Ozawa, M Popović, M Wyart - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
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 …

Elasticity, facilitation, and dynamic heterogeneity in glass-forming liquids

M Ozawa, G Biroli - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We study the role of elasticity-induced facilitation on the dynamics of glass-forming liquids by
a coarse-grained two-dimensional model in which local relaxation events, taking place by …

Colloidal hard spheres: Triumphs, challenges and mysteries

CP Royall, P Charbonneau, M Dijkstra, J Russo… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The simplicity of hard spheres as a model system is deceptive. Although the particles
interact solely through volume exclusion, that nevertheless suffices for a wealth of static and …

Emergent facilitation and glassy dynamics in supercooled liquids

MR Hasyim, KK Mandadapu - Proceedings of the National …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
In supercooled liquids, dynamical facilitation refers to a phenomenon where microscopic
motion begets further motion nearby, resulting in spatially heterogeneous dynamics. This is …

Two-step devitrification of ultrastable glasses

C Herrero, C Scalliet, MD Ediger… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The discovery of ultrastable glasses raises novel challenges about glassy systems. Recent
experiments studied the macroscopic devitrification of ultrastable glasses into liquids upon …

Irreversible Monte Carlo algorithms for hard disk glasses: from event-chain to collective swaps

F Ghimenti, L Berthier, F van Wijland - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Equilibrium sampling of the configuration space in disordered systems requires algorithms
that bypass the glassy slowing down of the physical dynamics. Irreversible Monte Carlo …

Intermittent relaxation and avalanches in extremely persistent active matter

YE Keta, R Mandal, P Sollich, RL Jack, L Berthier - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We use numerical simulations to study the dynamics of dense assemblies of self-propelled
particles in the limit of extremely large, but finite, persistence times. In this limit, the system …