In this talk, I would like to share with you what I learned from the two references [1] and [2], and emphasize useful stuff strongly based on my own opinion. Below is the outline (which may change from time to time, before or after the talk ).
- Basic Notions: Features of glasses, Temperature dependent relaxation times and kinetic fragility, Structural glass vs. Spin glass.
- Dynamic Heterogeneity: Spatiotemporal dynamic fluctuations, Multipoint correlation functions.
- Models and Theories: Mean-field theory, Configurational entropy and complex free energy, Random first-order transition.
- Off-Equilibrium Dynamics: Aging and Rheology
- Time scales and Length scales
- The Metal-to-Insulator transition at finite temperatures
References:
- Ludovic Berthier and Giulio Biroli, "Theoretical perspective on the glass transition and amorphous materials", Rev. Mod. Phys. 83, 587 (2011).
- T. R. Kirkpatrick and D. Thirumalai, "Random first order transition theory concepts in biology and physics", Rev. Mod. Phys. 87, 183 (2015).