Free energy landscape theory for unified understanding of glass transition

我构建了一个统一的理论框架来理解与玻璃化过程相关的各种现象。首先，我在自由能景观（FEL）的基础上重新表述了平衡统计力学，并证明了玻璃化转变附近的比热和结构熵的异常行为可以用理论来解释。利用Langevin方程将这一框架扩展到非平衡系统，并表明在玻璃化转变附近观察到的慢动力学归因于FEL上的随机动力学。我还成功地为一个单原子简单系统产生了长寿命的玻璃态。

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.