Brings together experts in glasses, geometrical frustration, and functional materials Covers theory, experiment, and simulations of ferroics Features an easy-to-read introduction in each chapter to make specialized topics accessible to a broad readership in condensed matter physics and materials science

Inhalt
List of Contributors.- Preface.- 1 What can spin glass theory and analogies tell us about ferroic glasses?.- 2 Spin glasses: Experimental signatures and salient outcomes.- 3 Frustration(s) and the Ice Rule: From Natural Materials to the Deliberate Design of Exotic Behaviors.- 4 Glassy phenomena and precursors in the lattice dynamics.- 5 Relaxor Ferroelectrics.- 6 Probing glassiness in Heuslers via density functional theory calculations.- 7 Strain glasses.- 8 Discrete pseudo spin and continuum models for strain glass.- 9 Mesoscopic modelling of strain glass.- 10 Phase field simulations of ferroic glasses.