Glassy disordered systems. Glass formation and universal anomalous low-energy properties (Q2884966)

Broadly speaking, the book displays a careful detailed analysis of the various origins of the metastability of glassy materials with various mathematical models to explain the various phenomena so involved. This is a review of structure and dynamics of glasses and their formation caused by liquid-to-glass transition. The content is divided in two parts: the first one which provides the fundamental properties of glasses, and the second one which studies anomalous low-energy dynamics of glasses. Emphasis is put on the pair (soft-mode, low energy) which is studied in a detailed manner. In this way, one deals successively with low-energy, very-low energy, moderately-low energy, and one describes anomalous properties of glasses at temperatures and frequencies lower than their Debye values. As a main conclusion of the book, there are two classes of glasses depending upon their behaviour with respect to low frequency sound and high frequency sound. This is a physics book with little mathematics.