The art of making structural, polymeric, and metallic glasses is rapidly developing with many
applications. A limitation is that under increasing external strain all amorphous solids (like …

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 response of amorphous materials to an applied strain can be continuous or instead
discontinuous if the initial configuration is very stable. We study theoretically how such a …

The effect of finite temperature T and finite strain rate γ ̇ on the statistical physics of plastic
deformations in amorphous solids made of N particles is investigated. We recognize three …

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 …

Amorphous solids yield at a critical value of the strain (in strain-controlled experiments); for
larger strains, the average stress can no longer increase—the system displays an …

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 …

By comparing the response to external strains in metallic glasses and in Lennard-Jones
glasses we find a quantitative universality of the fundamental plastic instabilities in the …

Failure of amorphous solids is fundamental to various phenomena, including landslides and
earthquakes. Recent experiments indicate that highly plastic regions form elongated …

We develop and extend a method presented by Patinet, Vandembroucq, and Falk [Phys.
Rev. Lett. 117, 045501 (2016) PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett. 117.045501] to …