Based on their structure, non-crystalline phases can fail in a brittle or ductile fashion.
However, the nature of the link between structure and propensity for ductility in disordered …

Investigations of plastic deformation and yielding of amorphous solids reveal a strong
dependence of their yielding behavior on the degree of annealing. Above a threshold …

We numerically study yielding in two-dimensional glasses which are generated with a very
wide range of stabilities by swap Monte Carlo simulations and then slowly deformed at zero …

Jammed soft disks exhibit avalanches of particle rearrangements under quasistatic shear.
We introduce a framework for understanding the statistics of the progression of avalanches …

The mechanical properties of soft matter are of great importance in countless applications, in
addition of being an active field of academic research. Given the relative ease with which …

Amorphous solids such as coffee foam, toothpaste, or mayonnaise display a transient creep
flow when a stress Σ is suddenly imposed. The associated strain rate is commonly found to …

Upon external mechanical loading, amorphous solids, such as foams, colloids, or molecular
glasses, exhibit a yielding transition from an elastic response at small deformations to a …

We consider the yielding behavior of amorphous solids under cyclic shear deformation and
show that it can be mapped into a random walk in a confining potential with an absorbing …

The universal form of the density of nonphononic, quasilocalized vibrational modes of
frequency ω in structural glasses, D (ω), was predicted theoretically decades ago, but only …

Under applied shear strain, granular and amorphous materials deform via particle
rearrangements, which can be small and localized or organized into system-spanning …