We review the depinning and nonequilibrium phases of collectively interacting particle
systems driven over random or periodic substrates. This type of system is relevant to vortices …

We give a bird's-eye view of the plastic deformation of crystals aimed at the statistical
physics community, as well as a broad introduction to the statistical theories of forced rigid …

The properties of the absorbing states of nonequilibrium models belonging to the conserved
directed percolation universality class are studied. We find that, at the critical point, the …

When driven by nonequilibrium fluctuations, particle systems may display phase transitions
and physical behavior with no equilibrium counterpart. We study a two-dimensional particle …

We report computer simulations of oscillatory athermal quasistatic shear deformation of
dense amorphous samples of a three-dimensional model glass former. A dynamical …

We report the self-organization of microfluidic emulsions into anomalously homogeneous
structures. Upon periodic driving confined emulsions undergo a first-order transition from a …

The emergence of particle irreversibility in periodically driven colloidal suspensions has
been interpreted as resulting either from a nonequilibrium phase transition to an absorbing …

We probe the microstructural yielding dynamics of a concentrated colloidal system by
performing creep/recovery tests with simultaneous collection of coherent scattering data via …

While the equilibrium properties, states, and phase transitions of interacting systems are well
described by statistical mechanics, the lack of suitable state parameters has hindered the …

Sphere packing is an ancient problem. The densest packing is known to be a face-centered
cubic (FCC) crystal, with space-filling fraction ϕ FCC= π/18≈ 0.74. The densest “random …