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Theory of simple glasses (1212.0390v1)
Published 3 Dec 2012 in cond-mat.stat-mech and cond-mat.dis-nn
Abstract: This manuscript has been prepared as a thesis to obtain the French "Habilitation `a diriger des recherches (HDR)" which allows one to supervise PhD students. I review here my work on the glass and jamming transition. I tried to explain this subject in a concise and self-contained way, highlighting what I consider the main motivations for its study and trying to put my work in a broader perspective. Basically I tried to tell this story in the same way as I would tell it to a student who contacted me to start a PhD thesis on these topics.