Granular materials consist of macroscopic grains, interacting via contact forces, and
unaffected by thermal fluctuations. They are one of a class systems that undergo jamming, ie …

In the late 1980s, Sam Edwards proposed a possible statistical-mechanical framework to
describe the properties of disordered granular materials. A key assumption underlying the …

In the first two papers of this series, we characterized the structure of maximally random
jammed (MRJ) sphere packings across length scales by computing a variety of different …

We develop a framework for stress response in two dimensional granular media, with and
without friction, that respects vector force balance at the microscopic level. We introduce …

We develop a scaling theory of the unjamming transition of soft frictionless disks in two
dimensions by defining local areas, which can be uniquely assigned to each contact. These …

The theory of mechanical response and stress transmission in disordered, jammed solids
poses several open questions of how nonperiodic networks—apparently indistinguishable …

We find that in simulations of quasi-statically sheared frictional disks, the shear jamming
transition can be characterized by an abrupt jump in the number of force bearing contacts …

Granular hydrogels represent an emerging class of intrinsically modular multimicrogel‐
based platforms with valuable features for therapeutics delivery, as well as exogenous and …

We show that the distribution of elements H in the Hessian matrices associated with
amorphous materials exhibit singularities P (H)∼| H| γ with an exponent γ< 0, as| H|→ 0. We …

When the states of a system can be described by the extrema of a high-dimensional
function, the characterisation of its complexity, ie the enumeration of the accessible stable …