The deformation and flow of disordered solids, such as metallic glasses and concentrated
emulsions, involves swift localized rearrangements of particles that induce a long-range …

We combine an analytically solvable mean-field elasto-plastic model with molecular
dynamics simulations of a generic glass former to demonstrate that, depending on their …

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 …

Amorphous solids are ubiquitous among natural and man-made materials. Often used as
structural materials for their attractive mechanical properties, their utility depends critically on …

We study the yielding behavior of a model glass under cyclic athermal quasistatic
deformation and at finite rate and temperature, computationally, and show that yielding is …

We present the experimental and numerical studies of a two-dimensional sheared
amorphous material composed of bidisperse photoelastic disks. We analyze the statistics of …

We use numerical simulations to study the dynamics of dense assemblies of self-propelled
particles in the limit of extremely large, but finite, persistence times. In this limit, the system …

Materials are often heterogeneous at various length scales, with variations in grain structure,
defects, and composition which has a strong influence on the emergent macroscopic plastic …

Plastic deformation in amorphous solids is known to be carried by stress-induced localized
rearrangements of a few tens of particles, accompanied by the conversion of elastic energy …

Crackling noise can be initiated by competing or coexisting mechanisms. These
mechanisms can combine to generate an approximate scale invariant distribution that …