Search Results - "Biroli, Giulio"
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Machine learning glasses
Published in Nature physics (01-04-2020)“…Artificial neural networks now allow the dynamics of supercooled liquids to be predicted from their structure alone in an unprecedented way, thus providing a…”
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Theoretical perspective on the glass transition and amorphous materials
Published in Reviews of modern physics (20-06-2011)“…We provide a theoretical perspective on the glass transition in molecular liquids at thermal equilibrium, on the spatially heterogeneous and aging dynamics of…”
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Breakdown of elasticity in amorphous solids
Published in Nature physics (01-12-2016)“…The response of amorphous solids to external stress is not very well understood. A study now shows that certain glasses, upon decreasing temperature, undergo a…”
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Random critical point separates brittle and ductile yielding transitions in amorphous materials
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (26-06-2018)“…We combine an analytically solvable mean-field elasto-plastic model with molecular dynamics simulations of a generic glass former to demonstrate that,…”
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Ideal glass transitions by random pinning
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (05-06-2012)“…We study the effect of freezing the positions of a fraction c of particles from an equilibrium configuration of a supercooled liquid at a temperature T. We…”
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Marginally stable equilibria in critical ecosystems
Published in New journal of physics (31-08-2018)“…In this work we study the stability of the equilibria reached by ecosystems formed by a large number of species. The model we focus on are Lotka-Volterra…”
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Complex interactions can create persistent fluctuations in high-diversity ecosystems
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-05-2020)“…When can ecological interactions drive an entire ecosystem into a persistent non-equilibrium state, where many species populations fluctuate without going to…”
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From non-ergodic eigenvectors to local resolvent statistics and back: A random matrix perspective
Published in Europhysics letters (01-08-2016)“…We study the statistics of the local resolvent and non-ergodic properties of eigenvectors for a generalised Rosenzweig-Porter random matrix model, undergoing…”
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Complex Energy Landscapes in Spiked-Tensor and Simple Glassy Models: Ruggedness, Arrangements of Local Minima, and Phase Transitions
Published in Physical review. X (01-01-2019)“…We study rough high-dimensional landscapes in which an increasingly stronger preference for a given configuration emerges. Such energy landscapes arise in…”
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Dynamical regimes of diffusion models
Published in Nature communications (17-11-2024)“…We study generative diffusion models in the regime where both the data dimension and the sample size are large, and the score function is trained optimally…”
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Local Dynamical Heterogeneity in Simple Glass Formers
Published in Physical review letters (29-04-2022)“…We study the local dynamical fluctuations in glass-forming models of particles embedded in d-dimensional space, in the mean-field limit of d→∞. Our analytical…”
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Searching for the Gardner Transition in Glassy Glycerol
Published in Physical review letters (15-01-2021)“…We search for a Gardner transition in glassy glycerol, a standard molecular glass, measuring the third harmonics cubic susceptibility χ_{3}^{(3)} from slightly…”
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Revisiting the concept of activation in supercooled liquids
Published in The European physical journal. E, Soft matter and biological physics (01-06-2021)“…In this work, we revisit the description of dynamics based on the concepts of metabasins and activation in mildly supercooled liquids via the analysis of the…”
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Multiscale Data-Driven Energy Estimation and Generation
Published in Physical review. X (01-11-2023)“…We develop a multiscale approach to estimate high-dimensional probability distributions. Our approach applies to cases in which the energy function (or…”
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Comparison of static length scales characterizing the glass transition
Published in Physical review letters (14-10-2013)“…The dramatic dynamic slowing down associated with the glass transition is considered by many to be related to the existence of a static length scale that grows…”
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Scaling Description of Dynamical Heterogeneity and Avalanches of Relaxation in Glass-Forming Liquids
Published in Physical review. X (01-09-2023)“…We provide a theoretical description of dynamical heterogeneities in glass-forming liquids, based on the premise that relaxation occurs via local…”
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Marvels and Pitfalls of the Langevin Algorithm in Noisy High-Dimensional Inference
Published in Physical review. X (01-03-2020)“…Gradient-descent-based algorithms and their stochastic versions have widespread applications in machine learning and statistical inference. In this work, we…”
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Liu-Nagel phase diagrams in infinite dimension
Published in SciPost physics (01-04-2018)“…We study Harmonic Soft Spheres as a model of thermal structural glasses in the limit of infinite dimension. We show that cooling, compressing and shearing a…”
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Effects of intraspecific cooperative interactions in large ecosystems
Published in SciPost physics (01-01-2022)“…We analyze the role of the Allee effect - a positive correlation between population density and mean individual fitness - for ecological communities formed by…”
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Role of fluctuations in the yielding transition of two-dimensional glasses
Published in Physical review research (21-05-2020)“…We numerically study yielding in two-dimensional glasses which are generated with a very wide range of stabilities by swap Monte-Carlo simulations and then…”
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