Dataset · April 26, 2024
The mean-field theory (MFT) of simple structural glasses, which is exact in the limit of infinite spatial dimensions, d→∞, offers theoretical insight as well as quantitative predictions about certain features of d=3 systems. In order to more systematically ...
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Dataset · July 22, 2022
Mean-field models of glasses that present a random first order transition exhibit highly nontrivial fluctuations. Building on previous studies that focused on the critical scaling regime, we here obtain a fully quantitative framework for all equilibrium co ...
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Dataset · March 30, 2022
The formulation of the mean-field infinite-dimensional solution of hard sphere glasses is a significant milestone for theoretical physics. How relevant this description might be for understanding low-dimensional glass-forming liquids, however, remains uncl ...
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Dataset · March 18, 2022
We study the local dynamical fluctuations in glass-forming models of particles embedded in d-dimensional space, in the mean-field limit of d→∞. Our analytical calculation reveals that single-particle observables, such as squared particle displacements, dis ...
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Dataset · December 9, 2021
Based on results from the physics and mathematics literature which suggest a series of clearly defined
conjectures, we formulate three simple scenarios for the fate of hard sphere crystallization in high dimension: in scenario A, crystallization is impeded ...
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Dataset · July 28, 2021
Although much is known about the metastable liquid branch of hard spheres--from low dimension d up to the infinite dimensional limit--its crystal counterpart remains largely unexplored for d>3. In particular, it is unclear whether the crystal phase is ther ...
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Dataset · July 2, 2021
The random Lorentz gas (RLG) is a minimal model for transport in disordered media. Despite the broad relevance of the model, theoretical grasp over its properties remains weak. For instance, the scaling with dimension $d$ of its localization transition at ...
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Dataset · June 29, 2021
The periodic microphases that self-assemble in systems with competing short-range attractive and long-range repulsive (SALR) interactions are structurally both rich and elegant. Significant theoretical and computational efforts have thus been dedicated to ...
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Dataset · June 7, 2021
The disordered microphases that develop in the high-temperature phase of systems with competing short- range attractive and long-range repulsive (SALR) interactions result in a rich array of distinct morphologies, such as cluster, void cluster and percolat ...
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Dataset · June 2, 2021
The site and bond percolation problems are conventionally studied on (hyper)cubic lattices, which afford straightforward numerical treatments. The recent implementation of efficient simulation algorithms for high-dimensional systems now also facilitates th ...
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Dataset · May 25, 2021
The random Lorentz gas (RLG) is a minimal model of both percolation and glassiness, which leads to a paradox in the infinite-dimensional limit: the localization transition is then expected to be continuous for the former and discontinuous for the latter. A ...
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Dataset · March 1, 2021
The random Lorentz gas (RLG) is a minimal model of transport in heterogeneous media that exhibits a continuous localization transition controlled by void space percolation. The RLG also provides a toy model of particle caging, which is known to be relevant ...
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Dataset · August 5, 2020
Finite-dimensional signatures of spinodal criticality are notoriously difficult to come by. The dynamical transition of glass-forming liquids, first described by mode-coupling theory, is a spinodal instability preempted by thermally activated processes tha ...
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Dataset · February 24, 2020
Systems of dense spheres interacting through very short-ranged attraction are known from theory, simulations and colloidal experiments to exhibit dynamical reentrance. Their liquid state can thus be fluidized at higher densities than possible in systems wi ...
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Dataset · October 8, 2019
Ultrastable vapor-deposited glasses display uncommon material properties. Most remarkably, upon heating they are believed to melt via a liquid front that originates at the free surface and propagates over a mesoscopic crossover length, before crossing over ...
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Dataset · September 30, 2019
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Inverted solubility--melting a crystal by cooling--is observed in a handful of proteins, such as carbomonoxy hemoglobin and gammaD-crystallin. In human gammaD-crystallin, the phenomenon is associated with the mutation of the 23rd residue, a proline, to a t ...
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Dataset · July 17, 2019
Protein crystal production is a major bottleneck in the structural characterisation of proteins. To advance beyond large-scale screening, rational strategies for protein crystallization are crucial. Understanding how chemical anisotropy (or patchiness) of ...
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Dataset · February 26, 2019
Liquids cooled towards the glass transition temperature transform into amorphous solids that have a wide range of applications. While the nature of this transformation is understood rigorously in the mean-field limit of infinite spatial dimensions, the pro ...
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Dataset · February 22, 2019
The recent implementation of a swap Monte Carlo algorithm (SWAP) for polydisperse mixtures fully bypasses computational sluggishness and closes the gap between experimental and simulation timescales in physical dimensions d=2 and 3. Here, we consider suita ...
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Dataset · February 13, 2019
A replica-symmetry-breaking phase transition is predicted in a host of disordered media. The criticality of the transition has, however, long been questioned below its upper critical dimension, six, due to the absence of a critical fixed point in the renor ...
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Dataset · February 5, 2019
We report on a nonequilibrium phase of matter, the minimally disordered crystal phase, which we find exists between the maximally amorphous glasses and the ideal crystal. Even though these near crystals appear highly ordered, they display glassy and jammin ...
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Dataset · February 5, 2019
Recent advances on the glass problem motivate reexamining classical models of percolation. Here, we consider the displacement of an ant in a labyrinth near the percolation threshold on cubic lattices both below and above the upper critical dimension of sim ...
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Dataset · February 4, 2019
Globular proteins are roughly spherical biomolecules with attractive, and highly directional interactions. This microscopic observation motivates describing these proteins as patchy particles: hard spheres with attractive surface patches. Mapping a biomole ...
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Dataset · October 9, 2018
The data files in this collection are associated with the paper "Equilibrium phase behavior of the square-well linear microphase-forming model", Y. Zhuang, P. Charbonneau, PRL, 2016. They include .dat, .gle and .eps files with associated raw data and gener ...
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Dataset · October 8, 2018
The transformation of the free-energy landscape from smooth to hierarchical is one of the richest features of mean-field disordered systems. A well-studied example is the de Almeida–Thouless transition for spin glasses in a magnetic field, and a similar ph ...
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Dataset · October 4, 2018
The data files in this collection are associated with the paper "Universal Non-Debye Scaling in the Density of States of Amorphous Solids", A. Poncet, P. Charbonneau, E. I. Corwin, G. Parisi, and F. Zamponi, PRL, 2016. They include .dat, .pdf, .gnu, .eps a ...
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Dataset · May 29, 2018
The Stokes--Einstein relation (SER) is one of most robust and widely employed results from the theory of liquids. Yet sizable deviations can be observed for selfsolvation, which cannot be explained by the standard hydrodynamic derivation. Here, we revisit ...
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Dataset · May 29, 2018
Using transfer matrices up to next-nearest-neighbour (NNN) interactions, we examine the structural correlations of quasi-one-dimensional systems of hard disks confined by two parallel lines and hard spheres confined in cylinders. Simulations have shown tha ...
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Dataset · March 14, 2018
We study the disordered regime of a one-dimensional (1D) short-range attraction and long-range repulsion (SALR) model, whose simplicity enables detailed analysis by transfer matrices and Monte Carlo simulations. We first characterize the signature of the c ...
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Dataset · February 6, 2018
Water occupies typically 50% of a protein crystal, and thus significantly contributes to the diffraction signal in crystallography experiments. Separating its contribution from that of the protein is, however, challenging because most water molecules are n ...
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Dataset · September 21, 2017
Glass films created by vapor-depositing molecules onto a substrate can exhibit properties similar to those of ordinary glasses aged for thousands of years. It is believed that enhanced surface mobility is the mechanism that allows vapor deposition to creat ...
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Dataset · September 19, 2017
The data files in this collection are associated with "Configurational entropy measurements in extremely supercooled liquids that break the glass ceiling", Berthier, Ludovic; Charbonneau, Patrick; Coslovich, Daniele; Ninarello, Andrea; Ozawa, Misaki; Yaida ...
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Dataset · September 15, 2017
Lyapunov exponents characterize the chaotic nature of dynamical systems by quantifying the growth rate of uncertainty associated with the imperfect measurement of initial conditions. Finite-time estimates of the exponent, however, experience fluctuations d ...
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Dataset · August 25, 2017
Despite many attempts, ordered equilibrium microphases have yet to be obtained in experimental colloidal suspensions. The recent computation of the equilibrium phase diagram of a microscopic, particle--based microphase former (Zhuang et al., Phys.~Rev.~Let ...
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Dataset · May 4, 2017
We have developed a tunable colloidal system and a corresponding theoretical model for studying the phase behavior of particles assembling under the influence of long-range magnetic interactions. A monolayer of paramagnetic particles is subjected to a spat ...
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Dataset · March 21, 2017
The data files in this collection are associated with the paper "Hard sphere packings within cylinders", L. Fu, W. Steinhardt, Y. Zhao, J.E.S Socolar and P. Charbonneau, Soft Matter, 2016. They include .dat and .m files with associated raw data and generat ...
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Dataset · March 20, 2017
The data files in this collection are associated with the paper "Assembly of hard spheres in a cylinder: a computational and experimental study", L. Fu, C. Bian, W. Shields, D. Cruz, G. Lopez and P. Charbonneau, Soft Matter (2017). They include .dat and .m ...
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Dataset · September 14, 2016
The data files in this collection are associated with the paper "Point-to-set lengths, local structure, and glassiness", S. Yaida, P. Charbonneau, L. Berthier, and G. Tarjus, Phys. Rev. E, 2016. They include .dat, .eps and .m files with associated raw data ...
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Dataset · July 5, 2016
The data files in this collection are associated with the paper "Growing timescales and lengthscales characterizing vibrations of amorphous solids", Y. Jin, L. Berthier, P. Charbonneau, G. Parisi, B. Seoane, and F. Zamponi, PNAS, 2016. They include .dat, . ...
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Dataset · May 16, 2016
The data files in this collection are associated with the paper "Linking dynamical heterogeneity to static amorphous order", P. Charbonneau, S. Yaida, E. Dyer, and J. Lee, J. Stat. Mech., 2016. They include .dat, .eps, and .m files with associated raw data ...
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