Modeling of heterogeneous materials and media is a problem of fundamental importance to
a wide class of phenomena and systems, ranging from condensed matter physics, soft …

Despite progress in the understanding of crystal nucleation and crystal growth since the first
theories for nucleation were developed, an exact quantitative prediction of the nucleation …

Sand, rice, sugar, snow, cement... Although ubiquitous in our daily lives, granular media still
challenge engineers and fascinate researchers. This book provides the state-of-the-art of the …

Coherently moving flocks of birds, beasts, or bacteria are examples of living matter with
spontaneous orientational order. How do these systems differ from thermal equilibrium …

Uncovering grain-scale mechanisms that underlie the disorder–order transition in
assemblies of dissipative, athermal particles is a fundamental problem with technological …

When driven by nonequilibrium fluctuations, particle systems may display phase transitions
and physical behavior with no equilibrium counterpart. We study a two-dimensional particle …

Abstract Characterization of the morphology, identification of patterns and quantification of
order encountered in colloidal assemblies is essential for several reasons. First of all, it is …

Quasi-crystals are aperiodic structures with crystallographic properties that are not
compatible with that of a single unit cell. Their discovery in a metallic alloy more than four …

Unlike crystalline solids, liquids lack long-range order, resulting in diffusive shear
fluctuations rather than propagating waves. Simulations predict that liquids exhibit ak-gap in …

We report an experimental investigation of the caging motion in a uniformly heated granular
fluid for a wide range of filling fractions, ϕ. At low ϕ the classic diffusive behavior of a fluid is …