Theory of structural glasses and supercooled liquids.

By V. Lubchenko, Peter G. Wolynes. Annual review of physical chemistry (Print), 2006

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We review the random first-order transition theory of the glass transition, emphasizing the experimental tests of the theory. Many distinct phenomena are quantitatively predicted or explained by the theory, both above and below the glass transition temperature T(g). These include the following: the viscosity catastrophe and heat-capacity jump at T(g), and their connection; the nonexponentiality of relaxations and their correlation with the fragility; dynamic heterogeneity in supercooled liquids owing to the mosaic structure; deviations from the Vogel-Fulcher law, connected with strings or fractal cooperative rearrangements; deviations from the Stokes-Einstein relation close to T(g); aging and its correlation with fragility; and the excess density of states at cryogenic temperatures owing to two-level tunneling systems and the Boson peak.

Subfields: Ceramics and Composites, Materials Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

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Revealing Hidden Structural Order Controlling Both Fast and Slow Glassy Dynamics in Supercooled Liquids (2018, result): “The power-law relation of ξwith ðT − T0Þ and the relation between ξ and τα are consistent with two known scenarios: the Ising-type critical scenario for theglass transition [13–15] and the random first-order transition theory [5,8,49].”
Aspects of non-equilibrium in classical and quantum systems: Slow relaxation and glasses, dynamical large deviations, quantum non-ergodicity, and open quantum dynamics (2017, background): “Due to (effective) frustration this free-energy landscape in configuration space is “rugged” with a potential proliferation of low lying states that under the right conditions may dominate the thermodynamics, leading eventually to a static singularity at some non-zero temperature [6, 23, 24].”
The role of local structure in dynamical arrest (2014, background): “Put another way, Tg could as well S T crystal liquid Tm~TxTMCTTK~T0 Tg τα ~102 s τα ~10-12 s τα ~10-8 s FIG.”
Theoretical perspective on the glass transition and amorphous materials (2010, background): “Reviews dedicated to different aspects of RFOT theory have appeared recently (Lubchenko and Wolynes, 2007; Götze, 2008; Cavagna, 2009; Biroli and Bouchaud, 2009; Mézard and Parisi, 2010).”
Kinetically Constrained Models (2010, neutral): “Note that this frustration, in contrast with e.g. the random first-order approach (Lubchenko and Wolynes, 2007), does not arise from quenched disorder, an ingredient which at any rate is not trivial to justify in models of real liquids.”
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