We build a minimal, mean-field, model of plasticity of amorphous solids, based upon a
phenomenology of dissipative events derived, in a preceding paper [A. Lemaitre, C. Caroli …

Mechanical deformation of amorphous solids can be described as consisting of an elastic
part in which the stress increases linearly with strain, up to a yield point at which the solid …

The dynamics of supercooled liquids and plastically deformed amorphous solids is known to
be dominated by the structure of their rough energy landscapes. Recent experiments and …

We perform extensive simulations of a two-dimensional Lennard-Jones glass subjected to
quasistatic shear deformation at T= 0. We analyze the distribution of nonaffine …

We discuss avalanche and finite-size fluctuations in a mesoscopic model to describe the
shear plasticity of amorphous materials. Plastic deformation is assumed to occur through …

We present results on a series of two-dimensional atomistic computer simulations of
amorphous systems subjected to simple shear in the athermal, quasistatic limit. The …

Using numerical simulations, we perform an extensive finite-size analysis of the transverse
diffusion coefficient in a sheared 2D amorphous solid over a broad range of strain rates at …

We combine an analytically solvable mean-field elasto-plastic model with molecular
dynamics simulations of a generic glass former to demonstrate that, depending on their …

Failure and flow of amorphous materials are central to various phenomena including
earthquakes and landslides. There is accumulating evidence that the yielding transition …

Plastic yielding of amorphous solids occurs by power-law distributed deformation
avalanches whose universality is still debated. Experiments and molecular dynamics …