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In this note we revisit the Kovacs effect, concerning the way in which the volume of a glass-forming liquid, which has been driven out of equilibrium, changes with time while the system evolves towards a metastable state. The theoretical explanation of this phenomenon has attracted much interest even in recent years, because of its relation with some subtle aspects of the still elusive nature of the glass transition. In fact, even if there is a rather general consensus on the fact that what is experimentally observed on cooling is the dramatic effect produced by the dynamical arrest of slower degrees of freedom over the experimental time scale, it is not yet clear whether this phenomenology can be justified upon assuming the existence of an underlying (possibly, high order) phase transition at lower temperatures.
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The authors belonging to the Institute for Chemical-Physical Processes (IPCF) of the National Research Council (CNR) recall with enthusiasm the visit that Professor N. H. March paid to their institute in 2010. PVG expresses his profound gratitude to Professor March who invited him to visit the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London (UK) and later, on repeated occasions, the Theoretical Chemistry Department of the University of Oxford (UK) in the earlier stages of his post-graduation career. Working with and learning from him has always been an influential, unforgettable experience.
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Aliotta, F., Ponterio, R.C., Saija, F., Giaquinta, P.V. (2018). Kovacs Effect and the Relation Between Glasses and Supercooled Liquids. In: Angilella, G., Amovilli, C. (eds) Many-body Approaches at Different Scales. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72374-7_12
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