The Physics of the Glass Transition

Abstract

In this talk, after a short phenomenological introduction on glasses, I will describe some recent progresses that have been done in glasses using the replica method in the definition and in the evaluation of the configurational entropy (or complexity). These results are at the basis of some analytic computations of the thermodynamic glass transition and of the properties below the phase transition point.

12 pages, 5 figures, invited talk at the II Paladin Memorial Conference

References in corpus (4)

• Inherent Structure Entropy of Supercooled Liquids
• The thermodynamical liquid-glass transition in a Lennard-Jones binary mixture
• The response of glassy systems to random perturbations: A bridge between equilibrium and off-equilibrium
• Lennard-Jones binary mixture: a thermodynamical approach to glass transition

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• Finite-size scaling at the dynamical transition of the mean-field 10-state Potts glass
• Statics and dynamics of the ten-state nearest-neighbor Potts glass on the simple-cubic lattice
• Evidence against a glass transition in the 10-state short range Potts glass
• Disordered Potts model on the diamond hierarchical lattice: Numerically exact treatment in the large-q limit
• Detection of hidden structures on all scales in amorphous materials and complex physical systems: basic notions and applications to networks, lattice systems, and glasses
• Locally self-similar phase diagram of the disordered Potts model on the hierarchical lattice