Jamming and Glass Transitions Jamming and Glass Transitions

Jamming and Glass Transitions

In Mean-Field Theories and Beyond

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Publisher Description

The work described in this book originates from a major effort to develop a fundamental theory of the glass and the jamming transitions. 

The first chapters guide the reader through the phenomenology of supercooled liquids and structural glasses and provide the tools to analyze the most frequently used models able to predict the complex behavior of such systems. A fundamental outcome is a detailed theoretical derivation of an effective thermodynamic potential, along with the study of anomalous vibrational properties of sphere systems. The interested reader can find in these pages a clear and deep analysis of mean-field models as well as the description of advanced beyond-mean-field perturbative expansions. To investigate important second-order phase transitions in lattice models, the last part of the book proposes an innovative theoretical approach, based on a multi-layer construction. 

The different methods developed in this thesis shed new light on importantconnections among constraint satisfaction problems, jamming and critical phenomena in complex systems, and lay part of the groundwork for a complete theory of amorphous solids.

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
2019
28 August
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
241
Pages
PUBLISHER
Springer International Publishing
SIZE
16.5
MB