4 papers
Universal Jamming Criticality and Self-Organizing Principles from Disorder to the Limit of Perfect Crystalline Order
Jianhua Zhang, Jiaqi Si, Ning Xu +1
While crystals are defined by periodic order, the nature of amorphous solids remains elusive due to their disordered, diverse, and nonequilibrium structures. Here, we focus on jamm…
Orientational phase transitions induced by two-patch interactions
Lingyao Kong, Hua Tong, Hao Hu
For two-patch particles in two dimensions, we find that the coupling of anisotropic patchy interactions and the triangular lattice leads to novel phase behaviors. For asymmetric pa…
A mechanical approach to facilitate the formation of dodecagonal quasicrystals and their approximants
Zhehua Jiang, Jianhua Zhang, Mengyuan Zhan +4
The conditions for forming quasicrystals and their approximants are stringent, normally requiring multiple length scales to stabilize the quasicrystalline order. Here we report an…
Ideal noncrystals: A possible new class of ordered matter without apparent broken symmetry
Xinyu Fan, Ding Xu, Jianhua Zhang +5
Order and disorder constitute two fundamental and opposite themes in condensed matter physics and materials science. Crystals are considered the epitome of order, characterised by…