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 provide a theoretical description of dynamical heterogeneities in glass-forming liquids,
based on the premise that relaxation occurs via local rearrangements coupled by elasticity …

It is now well established that glasses feature quasilocalized nonphononic excitations—
coined “soft spots”—, which follow a universal ω 4 density of states in the limit of low …

We study the role of elasticity-induced facilitation on the dynamics of glass-forming liquids by
a coarse-grained two-dimensional model in which local relaxation events, taking place by …

Disordered materials, like metallic glasses or silicate glasses, have an atomistic amorphous
structure preventing the formation of extended defects such as dislocations. Irreversible …

The similarity in mechanical properties of dense active matter and sheared amorphous
solids has been noted in recent years without a rigorous examination of the underlying …

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 …

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 …