Low temperature amorphous solids: mean field theory and beyond

2022/12/22 by Pierfrancesco Urbani, Urbani, Pierfrancesco
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn) #FOS: Physical sciences #Material Dynamics and Properties #Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics #Theoretical and Computational Physics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2212.11557

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Abstract

Amorphous solids at low temperature display unusual features which have been escaped a clear and unified comprehension. In recent years a mean field theory of amorphous solids constructed in the limit of infinite spatial dimensions has been proposed. I will briefly review what is the outcome of this theory focusing the low temperature phase and discuss some perspectives to go beyond the mean field limit.

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