We review the field of the glass transition, glassy dynamics and aging from a statistical mechanics perspective. We give a brief introduction to the subject and explain the main phenomenology encountered in glassy systems, with a particular emphasis on spatially heterogeneous dynamics. We review the main theoretical approaches currently available to account for these glassy phenomena, including recent developments regarding mean-field theory of liquids and glasses, novel computational tools, and connections to the jamming transition. Finally, the physics of aging and off-equilibrium dynamics exhibited by glassy materials is discussed.
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Berthier, L., & Biroli, G. (2009). Glasses and Aging, A Statistical Mechanics Perspective on. In Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science (pp. 4209–4240). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30440-3_248
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