Memory formation in matter is a theme of broad intellectual relevance; it sits at the
interdisciplinary crossroads of physics, biology, chemistry, and computer science. Memory …

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 …

Materials with an irreversible response to cyclic driving exhibit an evolving internal state
which, in principle, encodes information on the driving history. Here we realize irreversible …

We perform molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the effect of a glass preparation
on its yielding transition under oscillatory shear. We use swap Monte Carlo to investigate a …

The physical processes governing the onset of yield, where a material changes its shape
permanently under external deformation, are not yet understood for amorphous solids that …

A fundamental problem in the physics of amorphous materials is understanding the
transition from reversible to irreversible plastic behavior and its connection to yield …

We use computer simulations to analyze the yielding transition during large-amplitude
oscillatory shear of a simple model for soft jammed solids. Simultaneous analysis of global …

At the microscopic level, plastic flow of a jammed, disordered material consists of a series of
particle rearrangements that cannot be reversed by subsequent deformation. An …

When an amorphous solid is deformed cyclically, it may reach a steady state in which the
paths of constituent particles trace out closed loops that repeat in each driving cycle. A …

Self-organization, and transitions from reversible to irreversible behavior, of interacting
particle assemblies driven by externally imposed stresses or deformation is of interest in …