Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Written in a pedagogical style
- Describes an ab initio treatment of glasses under perturbations
- A self-contained resource for students and other seeking an introduction
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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About this book
This thesis presents a theoretical analysis of the behavior of glasses under external perturbations, i.e. compression and shear straining. Written in a pedagogical style, it explains every facet of the problem in detail, including many crucial steps that cannot be found in the existing literature—making it particularly useful for students and as an introduction to the subject of glassy physics.
In glassy systems the behavior under external compression and shear-strain is quite peculiar. Many complex phenomena are observed and grasping them fully would be a major step toward a complete theory of the glass transition.
This thesis makes important advances in this direction, analyzing the behavior of glassy states in painstaking detail and reproducing it in the framework of a recently developed mean field theory for glasses that has proven extremely successful for jamming, demonstrating its predictive power in the context of metastable glassy states obtained through nonequilibrium protocols.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Corrado Rainone is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Chemical Physics of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, under the guidance of Prof. Itamar Procaccia.
Before this, he was a PhD student at the Sapienza Università di Roma and the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique (LPT) de l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris, under the joint supervision of Prof. Giorgio Parisi and Dr. Francesco Zamponi.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Metastable Glassy States Under External Perturbations
Book Subtitle: Monitoring the Effects of Compression and Shear-strain
Authors: Corrado Rainone
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60423-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60422-0Published: 07 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86861-5Published: 02 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60423-7Published: 27 June 2017
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 209
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Materials, Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems