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Record Nr.

UNINA9910349512603321

Autore

Altieri Ada

Titolo

Jamming and Glass Transitions : In Mean-Field Theories and Beyond / / by Ada Altieri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-23600-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 pages)

Collana

Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5053

Disciplina

530.474

Soggetti

Phase transitions (Statistical physics)

Ceramics

Glass

Composites (Materials)

Composite materials

Low temperature physics

Low temperatures

Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems

Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Materials

Low Temperature Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Glass and jamming transitions in mean-field models -- Supercooled liquids and the glass transition -- The Jamming Transition -- An Exactly Solvable Model: The Perceptron -- Universality Classes: Perceptron Versus Sphere Models -- The Jamming Paradigm in Ecology -- Lattice Theories Beyond Mean-field -- The M-layer construction -- Conclusions -- Conclusions and Perspectives -- Appendix. .

Sommario/riassunto

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 important connections among constraint satisfaction problems, jamming and critical phenomena in complex systems, and lay part of the groundwork for a complete theory of amorphous solids.