Glasses and aging: A Statistical Mechanics Perspective Auteur(s): Arceri Francesco, Landes François, Berthier L., Biroli Giulio Chapître d'ouvrage: Encyclopedia Of Complexity And Systems Science (Living Reference), vol. p. (2022) Texte intégral en Openaccess : Ref HAL: hal-02942375_v1 Ref Arxiv: 2006.09725 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27737-5_248-2 Ref. & Cit.: NASA ADS Exporter : BibTex | endNote Résumé: We review the field of the glass transition, glassy dynamics and aging from a statistical mechanics perspective. We give a brief introduction to the subject and explain the main phenomenology encountered in glassy systems, with a particular emphasis on spatially heterogeneous dynamics. We review the main theoretical approaches currently available to account for these glassy phenomena, including recent developments regarding mean-field theory of liquids and glasses, novel computational tools, and connections to the jamming transition. Finally, the physics of aging and off-equilibrium dynamics exhibited by glassy materials is discussed. Commentaires: 50 pages, 24 figs. This is an updated version of a chapter initially written in 2009 for the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science (Springer) |