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Glassy State

Glassy State is a metastable amorphous solid state characterized by a disordered atomic or molecular structure akin to that of a liquid, yet exhibiting the mechanical rigidity of a solid, formed through rapid cooling that prevents crystallization.

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Variants

Vitreous State

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Spin glasses: Experimental facts, theoretical concepts, and open questions

Kurt Binder, A. P. Young · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1986 · 5.2K citations

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Anomalous low-temperature thermal properties of glasses and spin glasses

Philip W. Anderson, B. I. Halperin, C. M. Varma · Philosophical magazine · 1972 · 3.5K citations

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Nonexponential relaxations in strong and fragile glass formers

R. Böhmer, K. L. Ngai, C. Austen Angell et al. · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1993 · 2.4K citations

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Under what conditions can a glass be formed?

David Turnbull · Contemporary Physics · 1969 · 2.2K citations

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Supercooled Liquids and Glasses

M. D. Ediger, C. A. Angell, Sidney R. Nagel · The Journal of Physical Chemistry · 1996 · 2.2K citations

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  1. GP
    G. P. Johari

    McMaster University, Canada

    47 publications · 4K citations

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  2. AI
    Akihisa Inoue

    Tohoku University, Japan

    48 publications · 2.3K citations

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  3. MP
    Marian Paluch

    University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

    45 publications · 1.8K citations

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    Giorgio Parisi

    Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

    33 publications · 3.2K citations

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  5. LB
    Ludovic Berthier

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    29 publications · 3.5K citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

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    829 publications

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  2. Sapienza University of Rome

    Rome, Italy

    44 h-index

    183 publications

    12.9K citations

  3. Tohoku University

    Sendai, Japan

    38 h-index

    215 publications

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  4. Kyoto University

    Kyoto, Japan

    34 h-index

    255 publications

    13.8K citations

  5. Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives

    Paris, France

    34 h-index

    153 publications

    8.3K citations

  6. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    33 h-index

    158 publications

    8.7K citations

  7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

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  8. Université de Montpellier

    Montpellier, France

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  2. The Journal of Chemical Physics

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  3. Macromolecules

    164 publications · 10.2K citations

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  4. Physical review. B, Condensed matter

    PRB · 107 publications · 8.8K citations

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  5. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

    124 publications · 5.9K citations

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