2005/01/29 by Luca Cipelletti, Laurence Ramos · 4 citations
Chemistry · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions #Dynamics (music) #Glass transition #Material Dynamics and Properties #Perturbation (astronomy) #Soft matter #Theoretical and Computational Physics #Work (physics) #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0953-8984/17/6/r01
published as Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 17 (2005) R253-R285
openalex publication_date 2005/01/29 · arxiv created 2005/02/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Measuring, characterizing, and modelling the slow dynamics of glassy soft matter is a great challenge, with an impact that ranges from industrial applications to fundamental issues in modern statistical physics, such as the glass transition and the description of out-of-equilibrium systems. Although our understanding of these phenomena is still far from complete, recent simulations and novel theoretical approaches and experimental methods have shed new light on the dynamics of soft glassy materials. In this paper, we review the work of the last few years, with an emphasis on experiments in four distinct and yet related areas: the existence of two different glass states (attractive and repulsive), the dynamics of systems very far from equilibrium, the effect of an external perturbation on glassy materials, and dynamical heterogeneity.