Patterns on polymers usually have different mechanical properties as those of the
substrates, causing deformation or distortion and even detachment of the patterns from the …

Disordered systems under applied loading display slow creep flows at finite temperature,
which can lead to the material rupture. Renormalization group arguments predicted that …

Various physical systems relax mechanical frustration through configurational
rearrangements. We examine such rearrangements via Hamiltonian dynamics of simple …

We offer an alternative real-space description, based purely on activated processes, for the
understanding of relaxation dynamics in hierarchical landscapes. To this end, we use the …

We investigate the crumpling of a sheet as it is repeatedly crushed onto itself by rolling it into
a cylinder and twisting it axially while allowing the end-to-end length to evolve freely. As …

There are two fundamental paradigms for non-equilibrium dynamics: on the one hand, aging
towards an equilibrium state that cannot be reached on reasonable timescales; on the other …

In Shohat et al.[1], the authors present a study of the aging dynamics for crumpling sheets of
mylar after a constant load is applied. Those experiments are modeled with molecular …