The renormalization group plays an essential role in many areas of physics, both
conceptually and as a practical tool to determine the long-distance low-energy properties of …

Wetting phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and technology. A solid substrate exposed to
the environment is almost invariably covered by a layer of fluid material. In this review, the …

Disorder and long-range interactions are two of the key components that make material
failure an interesting playfield for the application of statistical mechanics. The cornerstone in …

Yield stress materials flow if a sufficiently large shear stress is applied. Although such
materials are ubiquitous and relevant for industry, there is no accepted microscopic …

The physics of liquids in porous media gives rise to many interesting phenomena, including
imbibition where a viscous fluid displaces a less viscous one. Here we discuss the …

Abstract Domain walls in magnets, vortex lattices in superconductors, contact lines at
depinning, and many other systems can be modeled as an elastic system subject to …

The present status of research and understanding regarding the dynamics and the statistical
properties of earthquakes is reviewed, mainly from a statistical physical viewpoint. Emphasis …

Understanding the nature of entanglement growth in many-body systems is one of the
fundamental questions in quantum physics. Here, we study this problem by characterizing …

While there exists a unified theoretical framework–Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics–to
describe the failure of homogeneous materials, understanding and modeling the …

This review focuses on applications of the ideas of superfluidity and superconductivity in
neutron stars in a broader context, ranging from the microphysics of pairing in nucleonic …