Statistical Physics of the Glass Phase

Abstract

This paper gives an introduction to some of the statistical physics problems which appear in the study of structural glasses. It is a shortened and updated version of a more detailed review paper which has appeared in cond-mat/0005173.

10 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of Statphys 21

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• Lattice Glass Models
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