Title Jamming and Glass Transitions : In Mean-Field Theories and Beyond Author(s) Altieri, Ada Publication Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2019. Description XXI, 220 p. 39 illus., 28 illus. in color : online resource Abstract Note The work described in this book originates from a major effort to develop a fundamental theory of the glass and the jamming transitions. The first chapters guide the reader through the phenomenology of supercooled liquids and structural glasses and provide the tools to analyze the most frequently used models able to predict the complex behavior of such systems. A fundamental outcome is a detailed theoretical derivation of an effective thermodynamic potential, along with the study of anomalous vibrational properties of sphere systems. The interested reader can find in these pages a clear and deep analysis of mean-field models as well as the description of advanced beyond-mean-field perturbative expansions. To investigate important second-order phase transitions in lattice models, the last part of the book proposes an innovative theoretical approach, based on a multi-layer construction. The different methods developed in this thesis shed new light on important connections among constraint satisfaction problems, jamming and critical phenomena in complex systems, and lay part of the groundwork for a complete theory of amorphous solids ISBN,Price 9783030236007 Keyword(s) 1. Ceramics 2. Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Materials 3. Composite materials 4. Composites (Materials) 5. EBOOK 6. EBOOK - SPRINGER 7. GLASS 8. LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS 9. LOW TEMPERATURES 10. Phase transitions (Statistical physics) 11. Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I08896     On Shelf