Università Roma Tre

The course intends to offer an introduction to the modern physics of liquids and to the physics of soft matter, understood as the study of phenomenology starting from interatomic force laws.
After an introduction to liquid matter and soft materials, computer numerical simulation methods applied to the physics of liquids and soft matter will be illustrated.
Correlation functions and linear response theory will then be studied with applications to the study of dynamics in the hydrodynamic and visco-elastic limits.
Memory functions will be introduced. The physics of subcooled liquids and the study of the glass transition for soft and liquid materials will be treated.