Modeling of heterogeneous materials and media is a problem of fundamental importance to
a wide class of phenomena and systems, ranging from condensed matter physics, soft …

Granular materials consist of macroscopic grains, interacting via contact forces, and
unaffected by thermal fluctuations. They are one of a class systems that undergo jamming, ie …

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 …

Despite decades of work, gaining a first-principles understanding of amorphous materials
remains an extremely challenging problem. However, recent theoretical breakthroughs have …

Jamming is a ubiquitous phenomenon that appears in many soft matter systems, including
granular materials, foams, colloidal suspensions, emulsions, polymers, and cells—when …

The configurational entropy is one of the most important thermodynamic quantities
characterizing supercooled liquids approaching the glass transition. Despite decades of …

This topical review discusses the quasiuniversality of simple liquids' structure and dynamics
and two possible justifications of it. The traditional one is based on the van der Waals picture …

Phase transitions significantly differ between 2D and 3D systems, but the influence of
dimensionality on the glass transition is unresolved. We use microscopy to study colloidal …

We consider the theory of the glass phase and jamming of hard spheres in the large space
dimension limit. Building upon the exact expression for the free-energy functional obtained …

The study of the packing of hard hyperspheres in d-dimensional Euclidean space R d has
been a topic of great interest in statistical mechanics and condensed matter theory. While …