We review recent research into elastic and plastic deformation of metallic glasses, with an
emphasis on making connections between developments in theory and simulation (largely …

Amorphous materials as diverse as foams, emulsions, colloidal suspensions and granular
media can jam into a rigid, disordered state where they withstand finite shear stresses …

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

Interatomic potentials approximate the potential energy of atoms as a function of their
coordinates. Their main application is the effective simulation of many-atom systems. Here …

We present results on a series of two-dimensional atomistic computer simulations of
amorphous systems subjected to simple shear in the athermal, quasistatic limit. The …

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

An approximation scheme for model disordered solids is proposed that leads to the fully
analytical evaluation of the elastic constants under explicit account of the inhomogeneity …

This is the first paper of a series of three, in which we report on numerical simulation studies
of geometric and mechanical properties of static assemblies of spherical beads under an …

A major issue in materials science is why glasses present low-temperature thermal and
vibrational properties that sharply differ from those of crystals. In particular, long-wavelength …

It is well known that amorphous solids display a phonon spectrum where the Debye∼ ω 2
law at low frequency melds into an anomalous excess-mode peak (the boson peak) before …