Particle jumps in structural glasses

Particle jumps in structural glasses.

Particles in structural glasses rattle around temporary equilibrium positions, that seldom change through a process which is much faster than the relaxation time, known as particle jump. Since the relaxation of the system is due to the accumulation of many such jumps, it could be possible to connect the single particle short time motion to the macroscopic relaxation by understanding the feature...

Study of two-electron jumps in relaxation of Coulomb glasses

Bare Bones Particle Swarms with Jumps

Bare Bones PSO was proposed by Kennedy as a model of PSO dynamics. Dependence on velocity is replaced by sampling from a Gaussian distribution. Although Kennedy’s original formulation is not competitive to standard PSO, the addition of a component-wise jumping mechanism, and a tuning of the standard deviation, can produce a comparable optimisation algorithm. This algorithm, Bare Bones with Jump...

Statistical Physics of Structural Glasses

This paper gives an introduction and brief overview of some of our recent work on the equilibrium thermodynamics of glasses. We have focused onto first principle computations in simple fragile glasses, starting from the two body interatomic potential. A replica formulation translates this problem into that of a gas of interacting molecules, each molecule being built of m atoms, and having a gyr...

Fractal free energy landscapes in structural glasses.

Glasses are amorphous solids whose constituent particles are caged by their neighbours and thus cannot flow. This sluggishness is often ascribed to the free energy landscape containing multiple minima (basins) separated by high barriers. Here we show, using theory and numerical simulation, that the landscape is much rougher than is classically assumed. Deep in the glass, it undergoes a 'roughne...