Solids are rigid, which means that when left undisturbed, their structures are nearly static. It
follows that these structures depend on history—but it is surprising that they hold readable …

Jamming is a ubiquitous phenomenon that appears in many soft matter systems, including
granular materials, foams, colloidal suspensions, emulsions, polymers, and cells—when …

The holographic duality has proven successful in linking seemingly unrelated problems in
physics. Recently, intriguing correspondences between the physics of soft matter and gravity …

Formulating order metrics that sensitively quantify the degree of order/disorder in many-
particle systems in d-dimensional Euclidean space R d across length scales is an …

The study of acoustic properties within particle systems is of great significance for inverting
system structures, designing soundproofing, or sound-guiding materials. To investigate the …

Soft composite solids are made of inclusions dispersed within soft matrices. They are
ubiquitous in nature and form the basis of many biological tissues. In the field of materials …

Using numerical simulations it is shown that a jammed, random pack of soft frictional grains
can store an arbitrary waveform that is applied as a small time-dependent shear while the …

Oscillatory-driven amorphous materials forget their initial configuration and converge to limit
cycles. Here we investigate this memory loss under a nonquasistatic drive in a minimal …

Systems driven far from equilibrium often retain structural memories of their processing
history. This memory has, in some cases, been shown to dramatically alter the material …

When unperturbed, granular materials form stable structures that resemble the ones of other
amorphous solids like metallic or colloidal glasses. Whether or not granular materials under …