Correlations in the shear flow of athermal amorphous solids: A principal component analysis
arXiv:1809.06487 · doi:10.1088/1742-5468/ab3aea
Abstract
We apply principal component analysis, a method frequently used in image processing and unsupervised machine learning, to characterize particle displacements observed in the steady shear flow of amorphous solids. PCA produces a low-dimensional representation of the data and clearly reveals the dominant features of elastic (i.e. reversible) and plastic deformation. We show that the principal directions of PCA in the plastic regime correspond to the soft (i.e. zero energy) modes of the elastic propagator that governs the redistribution of shear stress due to localized plastic events. Projections onto these soft modes also correspond to components of the displacement structure factor at the first nonzero wavevectors, in close analogy to PCA results for thermal phase transitions in conserved Ising spin systems. The study showcases the ability of PCA to identify physical observables related to the broken symmetry in a dynamical nonequilibrium transition.
arXiv comment6 pages; 6 figures
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