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Open AccessRevisiting the concept of activation in supercooled liquids
In this work, we revisit the description of dynamics based on the concepts of metabasins and activation in mildly supercooled liquids via the analysis of the dynamics of a paradigmatic glass former between its...
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Machine learning glasses
Artificial neural networks now allow the dynamics of supercooled liquids to be predicted from their structure alone in an unprecedented way, thus providing a powerful new tool to study the physics of the glass...
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Real Space Migdal–Kadanoff Renormalisation of Glassy Systems: Recent Results and a Critical Assessment
In this manuscript, in honour of L. Kadanoff, we present recent progress obtained in the description of finite dimensional glassy systems thanks to the Migdal–Kadanoff renormalisation group (MK-RG). We provide...
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Breakdown of elasticity in amorphous solids
The response of amorphous solids to external stress is not very well understood. A study now shows that certain glasses, upon decreasing temperature, undergo a phase transition characterized by diverging nonli...
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In search of the perfect glass
The jury's still out on how glasses and other disordered materials form. However, a new framework suggests that we can understand their mechanical properties without this information, by using the physics of j...
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Glass and Jamming Transitions
This is an introductory chapter to glass and jamming transitions. We present basic facts as well as recent discoveries, such as dynamical heterogeneities. In the final part we discuss a prominent theoretical a...
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Bootstrap Percolation and Kinetically Constrained Models on Hyperbolic Lattices
We study bootstrap percolation (BP) on hyperbolic lattices obtained by regular tilings of the hyperbolic plane. Our work is motivated by the connection between the BP transition and the dynamical transition of...
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A New Class of Cellular Automata with a Discontinuous Glass Transition
We introduce a new class of two-dimensional cellular automata with a bootstrap percolation-like dynamics. Each site can be either empty or occupied by a single particle and the dynamics follows a deterministi...
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Motion in assemblies of grains jams at high density and low drive. On approaching the jamming transition, the dynamics becomes increasingly spatially heterogeneous, and strongly reminiscent of the behaviour of...
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Jamming Percolation and Glassy Dynamics
We present a detailed physical analysis of the dynamical glass-jamming transition which occurs for the so called Knight models recently introduced and analyzed in a joint work with D.S. Fisher (Toninelli et al.,
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Cooperative Behavior of Kinetically Constrained Lattice Gas Models of Glassy Dynamics
Kinetically constrained lattice models of glasses introduced by Kob and Andersen (KA) are analyzed. It is proved that only two behaviors are possible on hypercubic lattices: either ergodicity at all densities ...
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Dynamical Arrest, Tracer Diffusion and Kinetically Constrained Lattice Gases
We analyze the tagged particle diffusion for kinetically constrained models for glassy systems. We present a method, focusing on the Kob–Andersen model as an example, which allows to prove lower and upper boun...
