Soft amorphous materials are viscoelastic solids ubiquitously found around us, from clays
and cementitious pastes to emulsions and physical gels encountered in food or biomedical …

We provide a theoretical description of dynamical heterogeneities in glass-forming liquids,
based on the premise that relaxation occurs via local rearrangements coupled by elasticity …

A solid loaded beyond the yield stress loses its elastic properties and becomes plastic. From
a microscopic point of view, this limit corresponds to the condition where plastic regions …

Topological defects are singularities within a field that cannot be removed by continuous
transformations. The definition of these irregularities requires an ordered reference …

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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 deformation mechanism in amorphous solids subjected to external shear remains
poorly understood because of the absence of well-defined topological defects mediating the …

Plastic deformation in metallic glasses at room temperature leads to the development of
shear bands due to shear localization. In many experiments, shear bands have shown local …

Continuum elasticity is a powerful tool applicable in a broad range of physical systems and
phenomena. Yet, understanding how and on what scales material disorder may lead to the …

In recent work, we developed a screening theory for describing the effect of plastic events in
amorphous solids on its emergent mechanics. The suggested theory uncovered an …