Disordered solids are ubiquitous in engineering and everyday use. Although research has
made considerable progress in the last decades, our understanding of the mechanics of …

The plastic deformation of crystalline materials can be understood by considering their
structural defects such as disclinations and dislocations. Although also glasses are solids …

The X-ray-induced, nonthermal fluidization of the prototypical SiO2 glass is investigated by X-
ray photon correlation spectroscopy in the small-angle scattering range. This process is …

Being able to predict the failure of materials based on structural information is a fundamental
issue with enormous practical and industrial relevance for the monitoring of devices and …

It was recently shown that different simple models of glass formers with binary interactions
define a universality class in terms of the density of states of their quasilocalized low …

Amorphous materials can exhibit varying degrees of nanoscale ductility depending on their
atomic structure. Despite its critical importance for applications, the physical origin that …

We study the mechanical response of a dislocation-free 2D crystal under homogenous
shear using a new mesoscopic approach to crystal plasticity, a Landau-type theory …

High entropy alloys (HEAs) are designed by mixing multiple metallic species in nearly the
same amount to obtain crystalline or amorphous materials with exceptional mechanical …

We investigate avalanches and clusters associated with plastic rearrangements and the
nature of structural change in the prototypical strong glass, silica, computationally. We …

Reliable classification and prediction of elementary rearrangement events is a crucial step
towards a profound understanding of the mechanical behavior of silica glass. Using various …