Yu-Liang Jin

Relaxation of quenched structural glasses: descent in a stiffening caging potential over inflection-point'speed bumps'

The slow energy relaxation in quenched glasses is a ubiquitous yet poorly understood phenomenon. Despite extensive study, the microscopic origin of the observed power-law decay remains debated, with proposed mechanisms ranging from saddle-point slowdown and marginal stability to coarsening of localized excitations and...