Yield stress materials in soft condensed matter

D Bonn, MM Denn, L Berthier, T Divoux… - Reviews of Modern …, 2017 - APS
A comprehensive review is presented of the physical behavior of yield stress materials in
soft condensed matter, which encompasses a broad range of materials from colloidal …

Inflationary primordial black holes for the LIGO gravitational wave events and pulsar timing array experiments

K Inomata, M Kawasaki, K Mukaida, Y Tada… - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
Primordial black holes (PBHs) are one of the candidates to explain the gravitational wave
(GW) signals observed by the LIGO detectors. Among several phenomena in the early …

Inflationary primordial black holes as all dark matter

K Inomata, M Kawasaki, K Mukaida, Y Tada… - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
Following a new microlensing constraint on primordial black holes (PBHs) with∼ 1 0 20–1 0
28 g [H. Niikura et al., arXiv: 1701.02151.], we revisit the idea of PBH as all dark matter (DM) …

The yielding transition in amorphous solids under oscillatory shear deformation

P Leishangthem, ADS Parmar, S Sastry - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Amorphous solids are ubiquitous among natural and man-made materials. Often used as
structural materials for their attractive mechanical properties, their utility depends critically on …

Spin-Orbit Semimetal in the Two-Dimensional Limit

DJ Groenendijk, C Autieri, J Girovsky… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We investigate the thickness-dependent electronic properties of ultrathin SrIrO 3 and
discover a transition from a semimetallic to a correlated insulating state below 4 unit cells …

Direct observation of percolation in the yielding transition of colloidal glasses

A Ghosh, Z Budrikis, V Chikkadi, AL Sellerio, S Zapperi… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
When strained beyond the linear regime, soft colloidal glasses yield to steady-state plastic
flow in a way that is similar to the deformation of conventional amorphous solids. Because of …

Softening and yielding of soft glassy materials

S Dagois-Bohy, E Somfai, BP Tighe, M Van Hecke - Soft matter, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Solids deform and fluids flow, but soft glassy materials, such as emulsions, foams,
suspensions, and pastes, exhibit an intricate mix of solid-and liquid-like behavior. While …

Effects of cooling rate on particle rearrangement statistics: Rapidly cooled glasses are more ductile and less reversible

M Fan, M Wang, K Zhang, Y Liu, J Schroers… - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
Amorphous solids, such as metallic, polymeric, and colloidal glasses, display complex
spatiotemporal response to applied deformations. In contrast to crystalline solids, during …

Collective nonaffine displacements in amorphous materials during large-amplitude oscillatory shear

NV Priezjev - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
Using molecular dynamics simulations, we study the transient response of a binary Lennard-
Jones glass subjected to periodic shear deformation. The amorphous solid is modeled as a …

Discontinuous fluidization transition in time-correlated assemblies of actively deforming particles

E Tjhung, L Berthier - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
Tracking experiments in dense biological tissues reveal a diversity of sources for local
energy injection at the cell scale. The effect of cell motility has been largely studied, but …