4 papers
The two-level systems in cryogenic solids, or how to avoid stressful memories
Vassiliy Lubchenko
Structural glasses prepared by bulk quenching a liquid melt universally exhibit puzzling low-energy excitations commonly known as the ``two-level systems'' (TLSs). Recent studies i…
Poly-liquid behaviors of self-associating fluids and mesoscopic aggregation in liquid solutions
Ilya Davydov, Vassiliy Lubchenko
In conflict with standard notions of thermodynamics, mesoscopically-sized inclusions (``clusters'') of a solute-rich liquid have been observed in equilibrated solutions of proteins…
The mechanism of electrical conduction in glassy semiconductors
Arkady Kurnosov, Vassiliy Lubchenko
We argue that the dominant charge carrier in glassy semiconducting alloys is a compound particle in the form of an electron or hole bound to an intimate pair of topological lattice…
Knowledge as a Breaking of Ergodicity
Yang He, Vassiliy Lubchenko
We construct a thermodynamic potential that can guide training of a generative model defined on a set of binary degrees of freedom. We argue that upon reduction in description, so…