The physics of the glass transition and amorphous materials continues to attract the attention
of a wide research community after decades of effort. Supercooled liquids and glasses have …

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

Upon loading, amorphous solids can exhibit brittle yielding, with the abrupt formation of
macroscopic shear bands leading to fracture, or ductile yielding, with a multitude of plastic …

The behavior of shear-oscillated amorphous materials is studied using a coarse-grained
model. Samples are prepared at different degrees of annealing and then subjected to …

We study a quasistatically driven random-field Ising model (RFIM) at zero temperature with
interactions mediated by the long-range anisotropic Eshelby kernel. Analogously to …

A recent breakthrough in glass science has been the synthesis of ultrastable glasses via
physical vapor deposition techniques. These samples display enhanced thermodynamic …

Amorphous solids can yield in either a ductile or brittle manner under strain: plastic
deformation can set in gradually, or abruptly through a macroscopic stress drop. Develo** …

Amorphous solids are viscoelastic. They dissipate energy when deformed at finite rate and
finite temperature. We here use analytic theory and molecular simulations to demonstrate …

Molecular dynamics computer simulations of a polydisperse soft-sphere model under shear
are presented. The starting point for these simulations are deeply supercooled samples far …

Amorphous solids are known to fail catastrophically via fracture, and cavitation at nano-
metric scales is known to play a significant role in such a failure process. Micro-alloying via …