Amorphous solids appear to react elastically to small external strains, but in contrast to ideal
elastic media, plastic responses abound immediately at any value of the strain. Such plastic …

Friction is central to the motion of active (self-propelled) objects such as bacteria, animals,
and robots. While in a viscous fluid friction is described by Stokes's law, objects in contact …

When amorphous solids are subjected to simple or pure strain, they exhibit elastic increase
in stress, punctuated by plastic events that become denser (in strain) upon increasing the …

The concept of mechanical screening is widely applied in solid-state systems. Examples
include nucleation of defects in crystalline materials, scars and pleats in curved crystals …

We present a universal characterization of stress correlations in athermal systems, across
crystalline to amorphous packings. Via numerical analysis of static configurations of particles …

Recent progress in studying the physics of amorphous solids has revealed that mechanical
strains can be strongly screened by the formation of plastic events that are typically …

Amorphous solids under mechanical strains are prone to plastic responses. Recent work
showed that in amorphous granular systems these plastic events, that are typically …

Theoretical treatments of frictional granular matter often assume that it is legitimate to invoke
classical elastic theory to describe its coarse-grained mechanical properties. Here, we show …

Colloidal gel systems exhibit increasingly slow relaxation and ultra-long-ranged spatial
correlations of the dynamics similar to other jammed materials. These cooperative dynamics …

Friction-induced energy dissipation is one of the key factors contributing to the unique
properties of granular materials, such as the preparation history dependence of the packing …