Glassy solids exhibit a wide variety of generic thermomechanical properties, ranging from
universal anomalous specific heat at cryogenic temperatures to nonlinear plastic yielding …

In experimental and theoretical studies of glass transition phenomena, one often finds a
sharp crossover in dynamical properties at a temperature T cr. A bifurcation of a relaxation …

Mechanical disorder in solids, which is generated by a broad range of physical processes
and controls various material properties, appears in a wide variety of forms. Defining unified …

We numerically study the zero-temperature relaxation dynamics of several glass-forming
models to their inherent structures, following quenches from equilibrium configurations …

Quantifying mechanical disorder in solids, either disordered crystals or glassy solids, and
understanding its range of variability are of prime importance, eg for discovering structure …

Inherent structures, derived by eliminating thermal fluctuations from complex trajectories,
illuminate fundamental mechanisms underlying structural relaxation and dynamic …

A universal dynamical crossover temperature, Tcr, in glassy liquids, associated with the
{\alpha}-\b {eta} bifurcation temperature, TB, has been observed in dielectric spectroscopy …

Understanding glass formation by quenching remains a challenge in soft condensed matter
physics. Recent numerical studies on steepest descent dynamics, which is one of the …

Glasses, commonly formed by quickly cooling a liquid to avoid crystallization, feature a
broad range of physical properties due to their diverse underlying disordered structures …