Recent Advances on the Glass Problem
Recent Advances on the Glass Problem
Patrick Charboneau, Duke University
Date and time:
Thu, Nov 29, 2018 - 11:30am
Refreshments at 11:15am
Location:
LGRT 1033
Category:
Condensed Matter Seminar
Speaker link:
Web page
Abstract:
Recent theoretical advances in the mean-field theory of glasses predict the existence, deep in the glass phase, of a novel phase transition, a so-called Gardner transition. This transition signals the emergence of a complex free energy landscape composed of a marginally stable hierarchy of sub-basins. It is also thought to be the onset of the anomalous thermal and transport properties of amorphous systems, and to ultimately lead to the unusual critical behavior at jamming. In this talk, I will present an overview of recent theoretical and numerical advances in the field of glasses, paying particular attention to capturing and characterizing the physics of the Gardner phase.
Department of Physics