The physics of the glass transition and amorphous materials continues to attract the attention
of a wide research community after decades of effort. Supercooled liquids and glasses have …

The simplicity of hard spheres as a model system is deceptive. Although the particles
interact solely through volume exclusion, that nevertheless suffices for a wealth of static and …

Amorphous solids lack long-range order. Therefore identifying structural defects—akin to
dislocations in crystalline solids—that carry plastic flow in these systems remains a daunting …

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

Invention of DNA origami has transformed the fabrication and application of biological
nanomaterials. In this review, we discuss DNA origami nanoassemblies according to their …

We perform molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the effect of a glass preparation
on its yielding transition under oscillatory shear. We use swap Monte Carlo to investigate a …

Yielding behavior in amorphous solids has been investigated in computer simulations using
uniform and cyclic shear deformation. Recent results characterize yielding as a …

Note: This Perspective offers a progress report for the Simons collaboration “Cracking the
Glass Problem,” of which the authors are some of the principal investigators. While the …

We present results on an automaton model of an amorphous solid under cyclic shear. After a
transient, the steady state falls into one of three cases in order of increasing strain …

Here we review recent studies of mechanical metamaterials originating from or closely
related to marginally jammed solids. Unlike previous approaches mainly focusing on the …