Amorphous solids, or glasses, are distinguished from crystalline solids by their lack of long-
range structural order. At the level of two-body structural correlations, glassformers show no …

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 …

One characteristic feature of soft matter systems is their strong response to external stimuli.
As a consequence they are comparatively easily driven out of their ground state and out of …

There is a variety of situations in which Newton's third law is violated. Generally, the action-
reaction symmetry can be broken for mesoscopic particles, when their effective interactions …

A vibrational model of transport properties of dense fluids assumes that solid-like oscillations
of atoms around their temporary equilibrium positions dominate the dynamical picture. The …

Quantum plasmas are an important topic in astrophysics and high pressure laboratory
physics for more than 50 years. In addition, many condensed matter systems, including the …

New complex-plasma facility, Plasmakristall-4 (PK-4), has been recently commissioned on
board the International Space Station. In complex plasmas, the subsystem of μm-sized …

Colloidal model systems allow studying crystallization kinetics under fairly ideal conditions,
with rather well-characterized pair interactions and minimized external influences. In …

A transition from a square to a hexagonal lattice is studied in a 2D system of particles
interacting via a core-softened potential. Due to the presence of two length scales of …

Dusty plasmas are electrically quasi-neutral media that, along with electrons, ions, neutral
gas, radiation, and electric and/or magnetic fields, also contain solid or liquid particles with …