Metastable Glassy States Under External Perturbations Monitoring the Effects of Compression and Shear-strain /

• Main Author: Rainone, Corrado (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Physics.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Phase transitions (Statistical physics).; Ceramics.; Glass.; Composites (Materials).; Composite materials.; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Materials.; Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems.

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—ma...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Supercooled Liquids and RFOT
• Metastable Glasses
• The State Following Construction
• The Replica Symmetric Ansatz
• The Full Replica Symmetry Breaking Ansatz
• Numerics in the Mari-Kurchan Model
• Conclusions.