Liquid Glass Transition

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 The Structure of the Condensed States and the Quantum Regime

1.2 The Two Band Model for the Liquid-Glass Transition

1.3 Perspective of This Book

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Chapter 2. Sound and Elastic Waves in the Classical Theory

2.1 Sound in the Classical Fluid Mechanics

2.2 Elastic Waves in the Classical Elastic Theory

2.3 Sound and Phonons in the Classical Microscopic Theory

2.4 The Kauzmann Entropy, the Vogel– Tamman– Fulcher Law and Specific Heat

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Chapter 3. Fundamentals of Quantum Field Theory

3.1 The Number Representation and the Fock Space

3.2 An Example of Unitarily Inequivalent Representations; The Bogoliubov Transformation of Boson Operators

3.3 The Physical Particle Representation and the Dynamical Map

3.4 Free Physical Fields for Physical Particles

3.5 The Physical Particle Representation and Perturbation Theory

3.6 The Spectral Representations of Two-Particle Green’s Functions

3.7 Invariance, the Noether Current and the Ward-Takahashi Relations

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Chapter 4. Temperature Green’s Functions

4.1 Definition of the Temperature Green’s Functions

4.2 Perturbation Theory and the Wick’s Theorem at Finite Temperature

4.3 Feynman Diagrams

4.4 Dyson’s Equation

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Chapter 5. Real Time Green’s Functions and Temperature Green’s Functions

5.1 Various Kinds of Green’s Functions

5.2 Linear Response and Density Correlation Function

5.3 A Linear Response Theory at Finite Temperature

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Chapter 6. The Structure of Glasses Associated with Phonons

6.1 The WT relations at finite temperature

6.2 The two band model and Green’s functions

6.3 The Nambu-Goldstone theorem and phonons

6.4 The structure of phonons

I Phonon dispersion curves

II The width of phonons

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Chapter 7. The Liquid-Glass Transition

7.1 Random Scattering Processes and the Bethe–Salpeter Equation

7.2 Intra-Band Density Fluctuations: Sound and Diffusion

7.3 Inter-Band Density Fluctuations: Phonons and Viscosity

7.4 The Kauzmann Entropy Crisis and the VTF Law; Specific Heat, Relaxation Times, and Transport Coefficients

7.5 The Intermediate Scattering Function

7.6 A Generalized Navier-Stokes Equation

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Chapter 8. Phonon Operators in Nonlinear Interaction Potentials

8.1 The Dynamical Equation for Phonon Operators in Nonlinear Interaction Potentials

8.2 Solitons and Bound States of the Self-Consistent Potential by the Boson Transformation Method

8.3 Localized Modes for a Quartic Potential in the One Loop Approximation

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Chapter 9. Phonon and Sound Fluctuation Modes and Thermal Conductivities

9.1 The Effective Interaction Hamiltonian for Phonon Fields and the Elementary Scattering Processes of Phonons

9.2 Phonon Density Fluctuations: Phonon Entropy Fluctuation Modes and Thermal Conductivities

9.3 The Effective Interaction for Sound Fields

9.4 Sound Density Fluctuations; Sound Entropy Mode and Sound Thermal Conductivity

9.5 The Anomaly of Thermal Conductivity and Specific Heat in Low Temperature Glasses

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Chapter 10. The Liquid-Glass Transition in Multi-Component Liquids

10.1 The Model Hamiltonian and the Random Scattering Hamiltonian

10.2 Sound and Diffusivity

10.3 Phonons, Boson Peaks, and Viscosities in Multi-Component Liquids

10.4 Phonons, Boson Peaks, and Viscosities in Two-Component Liquids

10.5 The Kauzmann Entropy Crisis and the VTF Law; Specific Heat, Relaxation Times, and Transport Coefficients

10.6 Concluding Remarks

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Chapter 11. Extension of the Two Band Model

11.1 Excitations in a Bose-Condensed Liquid

11.2 A Model on the Origin of RNA

11.3 A Model on the Financial Panic

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