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

The similarity in mechanical properties of dense active matter and sheared amorphous
solids has been noted in recent years without a rigorous examination of the underlying …

Granular packings display the remarkable phenomenon of dilatancy, wherein their volume
increases upon shear deformation. Conventional wisdom and previous results suggest that …

The concept of jamming has attracted great research interest due to its broad relevance in
soft-matter, such as liquids, glasses, colloids, foams, and granular materials, and its deep …

In infinite dimensions, many-body systems of pairwise interacting particles provide exact
analytical benchmarks for the features of amorphous materials, such as the stress–strain …

A four-state BEG model is constructed to investigate effects of electric dipole of solvent
molecule and ion valency on differential capacitance C d and energy storage E of the …

The application of the replica method to the analysis of mean-field models of packings of
particles has allowed the construction of a theory of amorphous solids in infinite dimensions …

The physics of disordered media, from metallic glasses to colloidal suspensions, granular
matter and biological tissues, offers difficult challenges because it often occurs far from …

Amorphous solids at low temperature display unusual features which have been escaped a
clear and unified comprehension. In recent years a mean field theory of amorphous solids …

In this contribution to the proceedings of the 29th Solvay Conference on Physics I will give
an overview of some key challenges in our theoretical understanding of the rheology of …