Rheology of athermal amorphous solids: Revisiting simplified scenarios and the concept of mechanical noise temperature

Abstract

We study the rheology of amorphous solids in the limit of negligible thermal fluctuations. On the basis of general arguments, the flow curve is shown to result from an interplay between the time scales of the macroscopic driving and the (cascades of) local particle rearrangements. Such rearrangements are known to induce a redistribution of the elastic stress in the system. Although mechanical noise, i.e., the local stress fluctuations arising from this redistribution, is widely believed to activate new particle rearrangements, we provide evidence that casts severe doubt on the analogy with thermal fluctuations: mechanical and thermal fluctuations lead to asymptotically different statistics for barrier crossing. These ideas are illustrated and supported by a simple coarse-grained model whose ingredients are directly connected with the physical processes relevant for the flow.

6 pages, 3 figures + Supp. Mat

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