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Quantum exploration of high-dimensional canyon landscapes
Pierfrancesco Urbani
Canyon landscapes in high dimension can be described as manifolds of small, but extensive dimension, immersed in a higher dimensional ambient space and characterized by a zero pote…
Shear yielding and shear jamming of dense hard sphere glasses
Pierfrancesco Urbani, Francesco Zamponi
We investigate the response of dense hard sphere glasses to a shear strain, in a wide range of pressures ranging from the glass transition to the infinite-pressure jamming point. T…
Following the evolution of glassy states under external perturbations: compression and shear-strain
Corrado Rainone, Pierfrancesco Urbani, Hajime Yoshino +1
We consider the adiabatic evolution of glassy states under external perturbations. Although the formalism we use is very general, we focus here on infinite-dimensional hard spheres…
The Gardner transition in finite dimensions
Pierfrancesco Urbani, Giulio Biroli
Recent works on hard spheres in the limit of infinite dimensions revealed that glass states, envisioned as meta-basins in configuration space, can break up in a multitude of separa…
Fractal free energy landscapes in structural glasses
Patrick Charbonneau, Jorge Kurchan, Giorgio Parisi +2
Glasses are amorphous solids whose constituent particles are caged by their neighbors and thus cannot flow. This sluggishness is often ascribed to the free energy landscape contain…