Cognitive function requires the coordination of neural activity across many scales, from
neurons and circuits to large-scale networks. As such, it is unlikely that an explanatory …

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable nanoscale particlelike objects that were
discovered in 2009. Since that time, intense research interest in the field has led to the …

Crustal deformation patterns are affected by multiscale granulation and healing processes
associated with phase transitions between continuum and discrete states of rocks. The …

For the first time in metallic glasses, we extract both the exponents and scaling functions that
describe the nature, statistics, and dynamics of slip events during slow deformation …

The study of critical phenomena and universal power laws has been one of the central
advances in statistical mechanicsduring the second half of the past century, explaining …

We study stress time series caused by plastic avalanches in athermally sheared disordered
materials. Using particle-based simulations and a mesoscopic elastoplastic model, we …

Abstract Domain walls in magnets, vortex lattices in superconductors, contact lines at
depinning, and many other systems can be modeled as an elastic system subject to …

A multitude of systems ranging from the Barkhausen effect in ferromagnetic materials to
plastic deformation and earthquakes respond to slow external driving by exhibiting …

Cortical activity depends upon a continuous supply of oxygen and other metabolic
resources. Perinatal disruption of oxygen availability is a common clinical scenario in …

We present the experimental and numerical studies of a two-dimensional sheared
amorphous material composed of bidisperse photoelastic disks. We analyze the statistics of …