Publications [#342344] of Patrick Charbonneau

Papers Published

1. Berthier, L; Charbonneau, P; Ninarello, A; Ozawa, M; Yaida, S, Zero-temperature glass transition in two dimensions., Nature communications, vol. 10 no. 1 (April, 2019), pp. 1508 [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/20)

   Abstract:
   Liquids cooled towards the glass transition temperature transform into amorphous solids that have a wide range of applications. While the nature of this transformation is understood rigorously in the mean-field limit of infinite spatial dimensions, the problem remains wide open in physical dimensions. Nontrivial finite-dimensional fluctuations are hard to control analytically, and experiments fail to provide conclusive evidence regarding the nature of the glass transition. Here, we develop Monte Carlo methods for two-dimensional glass-forming liquids that allow us to access equilibrium states at sufficiently low temperatures to directly probe the glass transition in a regime inaccessible to experiments. We find that the liquid state terminates at a thermodynamic glass transition which occurs at zero temperature and is associated with an entropy crisis and a diverging static correlation length. Our results thus demonstrate that a thermodynamic glass transition can occur in finite dimensional glass-formers.