Ultrastable Glasses and the Random First Order Transition Theory of Glasses

Peter Wolynes

Ultrastable Glasses and the Random First Order Transition Theory of Glasses

COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

Abstract

I will discuss the implications of the RFOT theory for the dynamics of ultrastable glasses focusing on the achievable limits to stability and the heterogeneous and homogeneous mechanisms of their rejuvenation.

March 4, 2015, 10:12 AM – March 4, 2015, 10:48 AM

Authors

Peter Wolynes

Rice Univ, Rice University