Disordered crystals reveal soft quasilocalized glassy excitations

E Lerner, E Bouchbinder - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
Structural glasses formed by quenching a melt are known to host a population of low-energy
quasilocalized (nonphononic) excitations whose frequencies ω follow a universal∼ ω 4 …

Finite-size effects in the microscopic critical properties of jammed configurations: A comprehensive study of the effects of different types of disorder

P Charbonneau, EI Corwin, RC Dennis… - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
Jamming criticality defines a universality class that includes systems as diverse as glasses,
colloids, foams, amorphous solids, constraint satisfaction problems, neural networks, etc. A …

Gardner-like crossover from variable to persistent force contacts in granular crystals

L Kool, P Charbonneau, KE Daniels - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
We report experimental evidence of a Gardner-like crossover from variable to persistent
force contacts in a two-dimensional bidisperse granular crystal by analyzing the variability of …

Universal stress correlations in crystalline and amorphous packings

R Maharana, D Das, P Chaudhuri, K Ramola - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
We present a universal characterization of stress correlations in athermal systems, across
crystalline to amorphous packings. Via numerical analysis of static configurations of particles …

The Gardner Glass

P Urbani, Y Jin, H Yoshino - Spin Glass Theory and Far Beyond …, 2023 - World Scientific
The application of the replica method to the analysis of mean-field models of packings of
particles has allowed the construction of a theory of amorphous solids in infinite dimensions …

Disorder perturbation expansion for athermal crystals

P Acharya, D Das, K Ramola - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We introduce a perturbation expansion for athermal systems that allows an exact
determination of displacement fields away from the crystalline state as a response to …

Emergent power-law interactions in near-crystalline membranes

P Acharya, D Das, S Sengupta, K Ramola - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
We derive exact results for the fluctuations in energy produced by microscopic disorder in
near-crystalline athermal systems. Our formalism captures the heterogeneity in the elastic …

Displacement correlations in disordered athermal networks

D Das, P Acharya, K Ramola - Journal of Statistical Physics, 2022 - Springer
We derive exact results for correlations in the displacement fields {δ r}≡{δ r μ= x, y} in near-
crystalline athermal systems in two dimensions. We analyze the displacement correlations …

Revealing the characteristic length of random close packing via critical-like random pinning

J Zhang, W Zheng, H Tong, N Xu - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
By randomly pinning particles in fluidized states and finding the local energy minima, we
form static packings of mono-disperse disks that resemble random close packing, when only …

Stress correlations in near-crystalline packings

R Maharana, K Ramola - SciPost Physics, 2024 - scipost.org
We derive exact results for stress correlations in near-crystalline systems in two and three
dimensions. We study energy minimized configurations of particles interacting through …