Rigidity regulates the integrity and function of many physical and biological systems. This is
the first of two papers on the origin of rigidity, wherein we propose that “energetic rigidity,” in …

The strange metallic regime across a number of high-temperature superconducting
materials presents numerous challenges to the classic theory of Fermi liquid metals. Recent …

Nearly, all dense suspensions undergo dramatic and abrupt thickening transitions in their
flow behavior when sheared at high stresses. Such transitions occur when the dominant …

Discontinuous shear thickening (DST) is associated with a sharp rise in a suspension's
viscosity with increasing applied shear rate or stress. Key signatures of DST, highlighted in …

Articular cartilage is a remarkable material able to sustain millions of loading cycles over
decades of use outperforming any synthetic substitute. Crucially, how extracellular matrix …

This article investigates phonons and elastic response in randomly diluted lattices
constructed by combining (via the addition of next-nearest bonds) a twisted kagome lattice …

We numerically investigate stress relaxation in soft athermal disks to reveal critical slowing
down when the system approaches the jamming point. The exponents describing the …

No known analytic framework precisely explains all the phenomena observed in jamming.
The replica theory for glasses and jamming is a mean-field theory which attempts to do so by …

Jamming is ubiquitous in disordered systems, but the critical behavior of jammed solids
subjected to active forces or thermal fluctuations remains elusive. In particular, while passive …

The onset of rigidity in interacting liquids, as they undergo a transition to a disordered solid,
is associated with a rearrangement of the low-frequency vibrational spectrum. In this Letter …