2010/10/31 by Ariel Amir, Yuval Oreg, Y. Imry +1 · 1 citation
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Condensed matter physics #Electron #Material Dynamics and Properties #Materials science #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Statistical physics #Theoretical and Computational Physics #Thermodynamics #Work (physics) #cond-mat.dis-nn #cond-mat.stat-mech #cond-mat.str-el
paper · pdf · doi:10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-062910-140455
Invited review to appear in Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics
arxiv created 2010/12/07 · openalex publication_date 2011/02/08 · arxiv updated 2017/08/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Examples of glasses are abundant, yet it remains one of the phases of matter whose understanding is very elusive. In recent years, remarkable experiments have been performed on the dynamical aspects of glasses. Electron glasses offer a particularly good example of the trademarks of glassy behavior, such as aging and slow relaxations. In this work we review the experimental literature on electron glasses, as well as the local mean-field theoretical framework put forward in recent years to understand some of these results. We also present novel theoretical results explaining the periodic aging experiment.