Theory of structural glasses and supercooled liquids

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 235-266

  Lubchenko, Vassiliy ^a   Wolynes, Peter G ^b  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amorphous solids; Boson peak; Density functional; Glass transition; Random first order transition; Strings; Two level systems; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

BOSONS; CORRELATION METHODS; CRYOGENICS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GLASS TRANSITION; SPECIFIC HEAT; SUPERCOOLING; VISCOSITY;

AMORPHOUS SOLIDS; SUPERCOOLED LIQUIDS; TUNNELING SYSTEMS; VOGEL FULCHER LAW;

GLASS;

GLASS;

CHEMISTRY; COLD; CRYSTALLIZATION; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; REVIEW; VISCOSITY;

CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; COLD; CRYSTALLIZATION; GLASS; PHASE TRANSITION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 34047135003     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physchem.58.032806.104653     Document Type: Review

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