The deformation and flow of disordered solids, such as metallic glasses and concentrated
emulsions, involves swift localized rearrangements of particles that induce a long-range …

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 …

In model amorphous solids produced via differing quench protocols, a strong correlation is
established between local yield stress measured by direct local probing of shear stress …

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 …

The yielding transition in athermal complex fluids can be interpreted as an absorbing phase
transition between an elastic, absorbing state with high mesoscopic degeneracy and a …

When an amorphous material is strained beyond the point of yielding, it enters a state of
continual reconfiguration via dissipative, avalanchelike slip events that relieve built-up local …

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 …

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 …

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

Upon loading, amorphous solids can exhibit brittle yielding, with the abrupt formation of
macroscopic shear bands leading to fracture, or ductile yielding, with a multitude of plastic …