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 …

Recent experiments and simulations of amorphous solids plastically deformed by an
oscillatory drive have found a surprising behavior—for small strain amplitudes the dynamics …

We study the annealing and rejuvenation behavior of a two-dimensional amorphous solid
model under oscillatory shear. We show that, depending on the cooling protocol used to …

A fundamental problem in the physics of amorphous materials is understanding the
transition from reversible to irreversible plastic behavior and its connection to yield …

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 …

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 …

Recently it was shown that under oscillatory shear at zero temperature an amorphous solid
transitions from asymptotically periodic to asymptotically diffusive steady-state at a critical …

We show that, at least at a mean-field level, the effect of structural disorder in sheared
amorphous media is very dissimilar depending on the thermal or athermal nature of their …

We demonstrate that irreversible structural reorganization is not necessary for the
observation of yield behavior in an amorphous solid. While the majority of solids strained to …

We propose a dynamical theory of low-temperature shear deformation in amorphous solids.
Our analysis is based on molecular-dynamics simulations of a two-dimensional, two …