Mechanical memories in solids, from disorder to design

JD Paulsen, NC Keim - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Solids are rigid, which means that when left undisturbed, their structures are nearly static. It
follows that these structures depend on history—but it is surprising that they hold readable …

Soft matter roadmap

JL Barrat, E Del Gado, SU Egelhaaf… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Soft materials are usually defined as materials made of mesoscopic entities, often self-
organised, sensitive to thermal fluctuations and to weak perturbations. Archetypal examples …

Reversible to irreversible transitions in periodic driven many-body systems and future directions for classical and quantum systems

C Reichhardt, I Regev, K Dahmen, S Okuma… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Reversible to irreversible (R-IR) transitions arise in numerous periodically driven collectively
interacting systems that, after a certain number of driving cycles, organize into a reversible …

Emergent disorder and mechanical memory in periodic metamaterials

C Sirote-Katz, D Shohat, C Merrigan, Y Lahini… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Ordered mechanical systems typically have one or only a few stable rest configurations, and
hence are not considered useful for encoding memory. Multistable and history-dependent …

Memory formation

SR Nagel, S Sastry, Z Zeravcic… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The recollection of events from our childhood is part of what makes each of us unique. The
storage and manipulation of memories allows us to think and to reason. Repetitive action …

Competition between energy and dynamics in memory formation

CW Lindeman, VF Hagh, CI Ip, SR Nagel - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
Bistable objects that are pushed between states by an external field are often used as a
simple model to study memory formation in disordered materials. Such systems, called …

Mechanical annealing and memories in a disordered solid

NC Keim, D Medina - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Shearing a disordered or amorphous solid for many cycles with a constant strain amplitude
can anneal it, relaxing a sample to a steady state that encodes a memory of that amplitude …

Geometric control and memory in networks of bistable elements

D Shohat, M van Hecke - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.07804, 2024 - arxiv.org
The sequential response of driven frustrated media encodes memory effects and hidden
computational capabilities. While abstract hysteron models can capture these effects, they …

Perspective on reversible to irreversible transitions in periodic driven many body systems and future directions for classical and quantum systems

C Reichhardt, I Regev, K Dahmen, S Okuma… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Reversible to irreversible (R-IR) transitions arise in numerous periodically driven collectively
interacting systems that, after a certain number of driving cycles, organize into a reversible …

Relaxation dynamics in amorphous alloys under asymmetric cyclic shear deformation

PK Jana, NV Priezjev - Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 2023 - Elsevier
The influence of cyclic loading and glass stability on structural relaxation and yielding
transition in amorphous alloys was investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. We …