On the existence of thermodynamically stable rigid solids

P Nath, S Ganguly, J Horbach… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Customarily, crystalline solids are defined to be rigid since they resist changes of shape
determined by their boundaries. However, rigid solids cannot exist in the thermodynamic …

Do thermodynamically stable rigid solids exist?

P Nath, S Ganguly, J Horbach, P Sollich… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Customarily, crystalline solids are defined to be {\em rigid} since they resist changes of
shape determined by their boundaries. However, rigid solids cannot exist in the …