From viscous fluids to elastic solids: A perspective on the glass transition

A theory for the non-local stress in liquids captures the crossover from viscous to elastic correlations upon supercooling. It explains the emergence of long-ranged stress fields in glass which originate from the coupling of shear stress to transverse deformations. The Goldstone mode in colloidal glass is shown to be diffusive.
Comment: To appear as a contribution to the edited volume "Spin Glass Theory & Far Beyond - Replica Symmetry Breaking after 40 Years", World Scientific