GLASSY MATERIALS AND DISORDERED SOLIDS
An Introduction to Their Statistical Mechanics
by Kurt Binder (Institut für Physik, Mainz, Germany) & Walter Kob (Laboratoire des Colloïdes, Verres et Nanomatériaux, Montpellier, France)
Table of Contents (70k)
Chapter 1: Introduction (1,104k)
The physics of glassy materials and disordered solids presents students with an area of study much more challenging than the physics of crystalline solids. Written by two recognized experts in the field, this highly readable book tackles the subject with the student firmly in mind, beginning with a pedagogical introduction to important concepts such as percolation, fractals, spin glasses, and glasses. Making use of these concepts, the authors show that such systems share many common aspects that can be described within the framework of statistical mechanics. The book is also an essential standard text for researchers on amorphous materials, equally accessible for theorists and experimentalists.
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