The physics of the glass transition and amorphous materials continues to attract the attention
of a wide research community after decades of effort. Supercooled liquids and glasses have …

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 …

Glassy solids exhibit a wide variety of generic thermomechanical properties, ranging from
universal anomalous specific heat at cryogenic temperatures to nonlinear plastic yielding …

We study theoretically the yielding of sheared amorphous materials as a function of
increasing levels of initial sample annealing prior to shear, in three widely used constitutive …

Yielding behavior in amorphous solids has been investigated in computer simulations using
uniform and cyclic shear deformation. Recent results characterize yielding as a …

Many soft materials yield under mechanical loading, but how this transition from solid-like
behavior to liquid-like behavior occurs can vary significantly. Understanding the physics of …

Note: This Perspective offers a progress report for the Simons collaboration “Cracking the
Glass Problem,” of which the authors are some of the principal investigators. While the …

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 …

Amorphous solids, such as glasses, have complex responses to deformations, with
substantial consequences in material design and applications. In this respect, two …

We study the yielding behavior of a model glass under cyclic athermal quasistatic
deformation and at finite rate and temperature, computationally, and show that yielding is …