https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2008-00120-3
Scenarii for slow dynamics and cooperative lengthscales in glass-formers
1
Service de Physique Théorique, Orme des Merisiers, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
2
Service de Physique de l'État Condensé, Orme des Merisiers, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France and Science & Finance, Capital Fund Management, 6-8 Bd Haussmann, 75009 Paris, France
Corresponding author: a giulio.biroli@cea.fr
Received:
4
September
2007
Published online:
21
March
2008
Glasses are often described as a genuine state of matter. The aim of this paper is to briefly review several ideas, old and new, about what makes glasses so special as a state of matter: glasses are liquids that do not flow, characterized by increasingly cooperative dynamics.
PACS: 61.43.Fs – Glasses / 05.20.-y – Classical statistical mechanics / 05.50.+q – Lattice theory and statistics
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2008
