The deformation and flow of disordered solids, such as metallic glasses and concentrated
emulsions, involves swift localized rearrangements of particles that induce a long-range …

We combine an analytically solvable mean-field elasto-plastic model with molecular
dynamics simulations of a generic glass former to demonstrate that, depending on their …

According to Clausius formulation of the second law of thermodynamics, for any thermal
machine withdrawing heats Q 1, 2 from two heat reservoirs at temperatures T 1, 2, it holds …

We use numerical simulations to study the dynamics of dense assemblies of self-propelled
particles in the limit of extremely large, but finite, persistence times. In this limit, the system …

Mesoscale elasto-plastic models, with statistically distributed structural properties and elastic
coupling between discrete blocks, have been shown to quantitatively reproduce the main …

Polymer nanoparticle composites (PNCs) with ultrahigh loading of nanoparticles (NPs)(>
50%) have been shown to exhibit markedly improved strength, stiffness, and toughness …

The macroscopic friction of particulate materials often weakens as the flow rate is increased,
leading to potentially disastrous intermittent phenomena including earthquakes and …

Computational studies of supercooled liquids often focus on various analyses of their
“underlying inherent states”—the glassy configurations at zero temperature obtained by an …

FIG. 1 Overview of amorphous solids. From left to right, top row: cellular phone case made of
metallic glass (1); toothpaste (2); mayonnaise (3); coffee foam (4); soya beans (5). Second …

Using mean field theory and a mesoscale elastoplastic model, we analyze the steady state
shear rheology of thermally activated amorphous solids. At sufficiently high temperature and …