Yi Zhou Glassy Behavior and Glass Transition 10/9/2019

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 ).

  1. Basic Notions: Features of glasses, Temperature dependent relaxation times and kinetic fragility, Structural glass vs. Spin glass.
  2. Dynamic Heterogeneity: Spatiotemporal dynamic fluctuations, Multipoint correlation functions.
  3. Models and Theories: Mean-field theory, Configurational entropy and complex free energy, Random first-order transition.
  4. Off-Equilibrium Dynamics: Aging and Rheology
  5. Time scales and Length scales
  6. The Metal-to-Insulator transition at finite temperatures

References:

  1. Ludovic Berthier and Giulio Biroli, "Theoretical perspective on the glass transition and amorphous materials", Rev. Mod. Phys. 83, 587 (2011).
  2. T. R. Kirkpatrick and D. Thirumalai, "Random first order transition theory concepts in biology and physics", Rev. Mod. Phys. 87, 183 (2015).

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