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Statistical physics of equilibrium systems provides today a well-established framework for classical thermodynamics. However, most ‘real world’ systems found in condensed matter, biology, natural or industrial macrocosms are out-of-equilibrium, either because of the presence of external forcing or because they cannot relax back to equilibrium. These systems are often non-linear, disordered and/or complex and present emerging properties of their own.
The goal of SPHYNX is to gather researchers working on different objects but using common tools, those of the statistical physics to tackle the same challenge, that of complexity.
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Molecular dynamics interpretation of the dielectric response of a supercooled liquid near the glass transition
When a liquid is cooled without crystallizing, its viscosity gradually increases to extreme levels as the dynamics slow down at the molecular scale. This phenomenon causes the formation of glasses, in which the dynamics are so slow that they remain indefinitely stuck in a non-equilibrium glassy state. This gives glasses the mechanical properties of a…
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