Wolynes / Lubchenko Structural Glasses and Supercooled Liquids

Theory, Experiment, and Applications
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-20241-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 450 Seiten, E-Book

With contributions from 24 global experts in diverse fields, andedited by world-recognized leaders in physical chemistry, chemicalphysics and biophysics, Structural Glasses and SupercooledLiquids: Theory, Experiment, and Applications presents amodern, complete survey of glassy phenomena in many systems basedon firmly established characteristics of the underlying molecularmotions as deduced by first principle theoretical calculations, orwith direct/single-molecule experimental techniques. A well-roundedview of a variety of disordered systems where cooperativephenomena, which are epitomized by supercooled liquids, take placeis provided. These systems include structural glasses andsupercooled liquids, polymers, complex liquids, proteinconformational dynamics, and strongly interacting electron systemswith quenched/self-generated disorder.
Detailed calculations and reasoned arguments closelycorresponding with experimental data are included, making the bookaccessible to an educated non-expert reader.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wolynes, Peter G.

Lubchenko, Vassiliy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii
Contributors xi
1 Supercooled Liquid Dynamics: Advances and Challenges1
Ranko Richert
2 The Random First-Order Transition Theory of Glasses: ACritical Assessment 31
Giulio Biroli and Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
3 Dielectric Spectroscopy of Glassy Dynamics 115
P. Lunkenheimer, M. K¨ohler, S. Kastner, and A.Loidl
4 Glasses and Replicas 151
Marc M´ezard and Giorgio Parisi
5 Glassiness in Uniformly Frustrated Systems 193
M. Dzero, J. Schmalian, and Peter G. Wolynes
6 Random First-Order Phase Transition Theory of theStructural Glass Transition 223
T. R. Kirkpatrick and D. Thirumalai
7 Fragile Glass Formers: Evidence for a New Paradigm, and aNew Relation to Strong Liquids 237
C. Austen Angell
8 Dynamics in the Crossover Region of Supercooled Liquids279
Biman Bagchi
9 Glassy Dynamics of Proteins 319
Guo Chen, P. W. Fenimore, and Hans Frauenfelder
10 Theories of Structural Glass Dynamics: Mosaics, Jamming,and All That 341
Vassiliy Lubchenko and Peter G. Wolynes
Index 381

Über Autor(innen)

Peter G. Wolynes, PhD, is the D.R. Bullard-Welch FoundationProfessor of Science at Rice University. For his work, spanningchemical, biological, and condensed matter physics, he was electedto the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and the German Academy ofSciences as well as to the Royal Society of London as a foreignmember.
Vassiliy Lubchenko, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Chemistryat the University of Houston. A recipient of the Beckman YoungInvestigator Award and Sloan Research Fellowship, Dr. Lubchenkoresearches optoelectronic anomalies of amorphous materials,dynamics of complex fluids and structural glasses, and aggregationbehaviors in protein solutions.