Disorder and amorphous systems constitute a large body of modern scientific and
technological research, where metallic glasses represent a simple realistic model material …

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 …

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When a sufficiently high stress is applied to a metallic glass, causing plastic deformation, the
material undergoes structural reconfiguration through dissipative slip avalanche events that …

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

We combine hydrodynamic and field theoretic methods to develop a general theory of
phonons as Goldstone bosons in crystals, glasses, and liquids based on nonaffine …

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 …

In amorphous materials, plasticity is localized and occurs as shear transformations. It was
recently shown by Wu et al. that these shear transformations can be predicted by applying …

The mechanical properties of crystals are controlled by the translational symmetry of their
structures. But for glasses with a disordered structure, the link between the symmetry of local …