Computer simulations of the glass transition and glassy materials

Abstract

We provide an overview of the different types of computational techniques developed over the years to study supercooled liquids, glassy materials and the physics of the glass transition. We organise these numerical strategies into four broad families. For each of them, we describe the general ideas without discussing any technical details. We summarise the type of questions which can be addressed by any given approach and outline the main results which have been obtained. Finally we describe two important directions for future computational studies of glassy systems.

16 pages, 1 figure. Submitted to the French Academy of Sciences to celebrate International Year of Glass 2022

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