Fragile Systems: a Comparative Study of Glassy and Crystalline Phases

Abstract

A full understanding of the strycture and dynamics of different condensed phases of matter (liquids, glasses, crystals) is hardly possible without addressing the processes of their mutual transformations and the interrelations between different phases. This view has become more and more common in the condensed matter research. A well-known example concerns the studies of the liquid-glass transition.