Domaines
Condensed matter
Statistical physics
Soft matter
Physics of liquids
Nonequilibrium statistical physics
Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics
Type of internship
Théorique, numérique Description
Many liquids cooled to low temperature do not crystallize, but stay amorphous upon freezing. The amorphous solid is called “glass”. On cooling toward the glass, the viscosity of the liquid increases dramatically, a precursor of the solid-like properties of the glass phase. The internship proposes the study and numerical computation of the so-called "visco-elastic memory functions" via a novel theoretical approach. These theoretical objects which are central to the understanding of the glass transition were up to now inaccessible to any numerical evaluation, are computed via a biased dynamics, which yields observables directly encoding the visco-elastic memory functions of models of complex liquids undergoing a glass transition.
Contact
Jean Farago