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Amorphous Order & Non-linear Susceptibilities in Glassy Materials
We review 15 years of theoretical and experimental work on the non-linear
response of glassy systems. We argue that an anomalous growth of the peak value
of non-linear susceptibilities is a signature of growing "amorphous order" in
the system, with spin-glasses as a case in point. Experimental results on
supercooled liquids are fully compatible with the RFOT prediction of compact
"glassites" of increasing volume as temperature is decreased, or as the system
ages. We clarify why such a behaviour is hard to explain within purely kinetic
theories of glass formation, despite recent claims to the contrary.Comment: Contribution to be submitted to Dave Thirumalai Festschrift in The
Journal of Physical Chemistr
Direct experimental evidence of a growing length scale accompanying the glass transition
Understanding glass formation is a challenge because the existence of a true
glass state, distinct from liquid and solid, remains elusive: Glasses are
liquids that have become too viscous to flow. An old idea, as yet unproven
experimentally, is that the dynamics becomes sluggish as the glass transition
approaches because increasingly larger regions of the material have to move
simultaneously to allow flow. We introduce new multipoint dynamical
susceptibilities to estimate quantitatively the size of these regions and
provide direct experimental evidence that the glass formation of molecular
liquids and colloidal suspensions is accompanied by growing dynamic correlation
length scales.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
French Roadmap for complex Systems 2008-2009
This second issue of the French Complex Systems Roadmap is the outcome of the
Entretiens de Cargese 2008, an interdisciplinary brainstorming session
organized over one week in 2008, jointly by RNSC, ISC-PIF and IXXI. It
capitalizes on the first roadmap and gathers contributions of more than 70
scientists from major French institutions. The aim of this roadmap is to foster
the coordination of the complex systems community on focused topics and
questions, as well as to present contributions and challenges in the complex
systems sciences and complexity science to the public, political and industrial
spheres
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French Roadmap for complex Systems 2008-2009
This second issue of the French Complex Systems Roadmap is the outcome of the
Entretiens de Cargese 2008, an interdisciplinary brainstorming session
organized over one week in 2008, jointly by RNSC, ISC-PIF and IXXI. It
capitalizes on the first roadmap and gathers contributions of more than 70
scientists from major French institutions. The aim of this roadmap is to foster
the coordination of the complex systems community on focused topics and
questions, as well as to present contributions and challenges in the complex
systems sciences and complexity science to the public, political and industrial
spheres