# Glasses and Glass transition -core node

## 1996 [Supercooled liquids and glasses](http://boulderschool.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/EdigerAngellNagel1996.pdf)⏎

## 2008 NYT [The Nature of Glass Remains Anything but Clear](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/5552/Untitled%2B50.pdf)

[PWA - through the glass lightly](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/5491/pwa-%2Bglass.pdf) versus [through the glass darkly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Corinthians_13#%22Through_a_glass,_darkly%22)

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## [Colloquium: The glass transition and elastic models of glass-forming liquids](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/5425/dyre%2Bglass.pdf) 2006, Jeppe C. Dyre

> For a number of reasons the study of viscous liquids approaching the glass transition is likely to remain an
> exciting branch of condensed-matter physics for years to come: 
> 
 1 the most basic problems are unsolved; 
> 
 2 computers are still too slow for the secrets of viscous liquid dynamics to be revealed by brute force simulations; and
> 
 3 there is a **small, dimensionless number characterizing viscous liquids just above the glass transition** $10^{−30}$, indicating that a simple and general theory for viscous liquid dynamics may exist. 

> Although the research field is still open to new theoretical developments and even simple phenomenological modeling, **future breakthroughs are likely to come from careful and accurate experiments.**


## see Internal friction plot - 1986 [Low temperature properties of glasses-unsolved problems - A K RAYCHAUDHURI](https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/jcsc/096/06/0559-0564)

- [Amorphous solids from the glass transition to 1 Kelvin](https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-02490838/file/SCALLIET_2019_archivage.pdf)

> At high densities, in the regime relevant for molecular and atomic glasses,
> the landscape is rather simple, characterized by few minima. The dynamical behavior of the glass
> is dictated by highly localized defects, which correspond to a few particles hopping between nearby
> configurations

## Angell [The glass transition](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/5490/angell%2B-%2Bglass.pdf)

> ... but to survive undamped to temperatures well above T, in strong glass-formers [lOl,lOZ]. The localization of low frequency modes [103,104] which is thought to be associated with boson peak damping [105] may thus be the key phenomenon triggering the glass transition. 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01418639508238546
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.636


> ....the glass transition is in a state of rapid development. Highlights are the advent of microheterogeneity models which go far to rationalize
> fragility, and **the correlation of boson peak physics with glass transition**. The random energy model deserves more attention. 


##  [Soft localized vibrations in glasses and undercooled liquids](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/5492/buchanau.pdf) U. Buchenau

> An explanation for their localization is attempted in terms of the balance between their vibrational entropy
> and the energy needed for their destabilization


# Parents

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