Workshop organized by: F. Peluso
“On est donc contraint d’admettre un point de vue intermédiaire: un liquide, à basse température, serait un réseau cristallin défini, mais présentant une ou plusieurs directions de plans de clivage infinement facile. La distinction, par rapport au liquid idéal, est essentielle: nous aurons, dans de trés petits domaines, des structures cristallines; ces cristaux résistant à un effort tangentiel, si celui-ci s’exerce dans une direction autre que cell de clivage infinement facile.” ... “Microscopiquement, (les liquides) sont des solides; macroscopiquement ils apparaitront liquides.”, Brillouin, L., 1936, “La chaleur spécifique des liquides et leur constitution”, J. Phys. Rad, Serie VII, Tome II, N. 4, pp. 153-157.
This far-sighted phrase by Brillouin, dating back to 1936 and likely forgotten, was the first seed of what is now one of the most promising mesoscopic models for liquids. The idea inspired many other famous physicists of the 20th century, such as Frenkel, Landau, Eyring, Nettleton, and less famous, such as Fiks, Andreev. More recently, new theoretical approaches have benefited from experimental results. The advent of modern experimental techniques has allowed us to investigate the intimate structure of liquids at their mesoscopic scale, further stimulating the minds of theorists. Today it is commonly believed that one of the challenges, probably the most relevant, of condensed matter physics is the understanding of “macroscopic” phenomena through the modeling at the “mesoscopic” scale.
Yet still today, many unanswered questions about the mesoscopic dynamics of liquids remain, in addition to a dearth of experiments. This workshop aims to discuss and compare different dual models of liquids and to propose new ideas for experiments.
List of potential speakers:
- Alessio Zaccone, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Matteo Baggioli, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Laurence Noirez, CNRS, France
- V.V. Brazhkin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- Ali Ghandili, Cihan University, Erbil, Iraq
- S.A. Khrapak, Russian academy of sciences, Russia
-A.G. Khrapak, Russian academy of sciences, Russia
- Cillian Cockrel, Bangor University, UK
- Takeshi Egami, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- D. Bolmatov, Texas Tech University, USA
- Gang Chen, MIT, USA