Structural glasses and supercooled liquids : theory, experiment, and applications

Author(s)

• Wolynes, P. G. (Peter G.)
• Lubchenko, Vassiliy

Bibliographic Information

Structural glasses and supercooled liquids : theory, experiment, and applications

edited by Peter G. Wolynes, Vassiliy Lubchenko

Wiley, c2012

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

With contributions from 24 global experts in diverse fields, and edited by world-recognized leaders in physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysics, Structural Glasses and Supercooled Liquids: Theory, Experiment, and Applications presents a modern, complete survey of glassy phenomena in many systems based on firmly established characteristics of the underlying molecular motions as deduced by first principle theoretical calculations, or with direct/single-molecule experimental techniques. A well-rounded view of a variety of disordered systems where cooperative phenomena, which are epitomized by supercooled liquids, take place is provided. These systems include structural glasses and supercooled liquids, polymers, complex liquids, protein conformational dynamics, and strongly interacting electron systems with quenched/self-generated disorder. Detailed calculations and reasoned arguments closely corresponding with experimental data are included, making the book accessible to an educated non-expert reader.

Table of Contents

Preface vii Contributors xi 1 Supercooled Liquid Dynamics: Advances and Challenges 1 Ranko Richert 2 The Random First-Order Transition Theory of Glasses: A Critical Assessment 31 Giulio Biroli and Jean-Philippe Bouchaud 3 Dielectric Spectroscopy of Glassy Dynamics 115 P. Lunkenheimer, M. Kohler, S. Kastner, and A. Loidl 4 Glasses and Replicas 151 Marc Mezard and Giorgio Parisi 5 Glassiness in Uniformly Frustrated Systems 193 M. Dzero, J. Schmalian, and Peter G. Wolynes 6 Random First-Order Phase Transition Theory of the Structural Glass Transition 223 T. R. Kirkpatrick and D. Thirumalai 7 Fragile Glass Formers: Evidence for a New Paradigm, and a New Relation to Strong Liquids 237 C. Austen Angell 8 Dynamics in the Crossover Region of Supercooled Liquids 279 Biman Bagchi 9 Glassy Dynamics of Proteins 319 Guo Chen, P. W. Fenimore, and Hans Frauenfelder 10 Theories of Structural Glass Dynamics: Mosaics, Jamming, and All That 341 Vassiliy Lubchenko and Peter G. Wolynes Index 381

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Details

• NCID: BB09154718
• ISBN:
  • 9780470452233
• LCCN: 2011045245
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Hoboken, N.J.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 391 p., [16] p. of plates
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : TA450
  • DC23 : 620.1/44
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Glass -- Analysis