Free energy landscape theory for unified understanding of glass transition

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I constructed a unified theoretical framework to understand various phenomena related to vitrification process. First, I reformulated the equilibrium statistical mechanics on the basis of the free energy landscape (FEL) and showed that anomalous behaviors of the specific heat and structural entropy near the glass transition can be explained by the theory. This framework was extended to non-equilibrium systems by exploiting the Langevin equation for the dynamics on the FEL and slow dynamics observed near the glass transition are shown to be attributed to stochastic dynamics on the FEL. I also succeeded in producing a long-lived glassy state for a monatomic simple system.