Theory of simple glasses

TL;DR

This thesis reviews the author's research on the glass and jamming transition, providing a concise, self-contained overview aimed at guiding new researchers in the field.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive synthesis of the author's work on simple glasses and jamming, contextualized for educational and research development purposes.

Findings

Clarified key mechanisms of the glass transition

Connected jamming phenomena with glassy states

Provided insights into the theoretical understanding of simple glasses

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.