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20202026
most citedPredicting plasticity in disordered solids from structural indicators

220 citations · 307 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

physics.bio-ph2026

You ain't seen nothing, and yet: Future biochemical concentrations can be predicted with surprisingly high accuracy

Ketevan Danelia, Sean A. Ridout, Ilya Nemenman

Accurate sensing of chemical concentrations is essential for numerous biological processes. The accuracy of this sensing, for small numbers of molecules, is limited by shot noise.…

math.ST2025

Distribution of singular values in large sample cross-covariance matrices

Arabind Swain, Sean Alexander Ridout, Ilya Nemenman

For two large matrices and with Gaussian i.i.d.\ entries and dimensions and , respectively, we derive the probability distrib…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 1 cited

The dynamics of machine-learned "softness" in supercooled liquids describe dynamical heterogeneity

Sean A. Ridout, Andrea J. Liu

The dynamics of supercooled liquids slow down and become increasingly heterogeneous as they are cooled. Recently, local structural variables identified using machine learning, such…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 1 cited

Machine learning that predicts well may not learn the correct physical descriptions of glassy systems

Arabind Swain, Sean Alexander Ridout, Ilya Nemenman

The complexity of glasses makes it challenging to explain their dynamics. Machine Learning (ML) has emerged as a promising pathway for understanding glassy dynamics by linking thei…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 7 cited

Building a "trap model" of glassy dynamics from a local structural predictor of rearrangements

Sean A. Ridout, Indrajit Tah, Andrea J. Liu

Here we introduce a variation of the trap model of glasses based on softness, a local structural variable identified by machine learning, in supercooled liquids. Softness is a part…

cond-mat.soft2023

Universal scaling function ansatz for finite-temperature jamming

Sean A. Ridout, Andrea J. Liu, James P. Sethna

We cast a nonzero-temperature analysis of the jamming transition into the framework of a scaling ansatz. We show that four distinct regimes for scaling exponents of thermodynamic d…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 2 cited

Machine learning-informed structuro-elastoplasticity predicts ductility of disordered solids

Hongyi Xiao, Ge Zhang, Entao Yang +5

All solids yield under sufficiently high mechanical loads. Below yield, the mechanical responses of all disordered solids are nearly alike, but above yield every different disorder…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 1 cited

Structuro-elasto-plasticity (StEP) model for plasticity in disordered solids

Ge Zhang, Hongyi Xiao, Entao Yang +5

Elastoplastic lattice models for the response of solids to deformation typically incorporate structure only implicitly via a local yield strain that is assigned to each site. Howev…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 31 cited

Fragility in Glassy Liquids: A Structural Approach Based on Machine Learning

Indrajit Tah, Sean A. Ridout, Andrea J. Liu

The rapid rise of viscosity or relaxation time upon supercooling is universal hallmark of glassy liquids. The temperature dependence of the viscosity, however, is quite non univers…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 5 cited

Jammed solids with pins: Thresholds, Force networks and Elasticity

Andy L. Zhang, Sean A. Ridout, Celia Parts +6

The role of fixed degrees of freedom in soft/granular matter systems has broad applicability and theoretical interest. Here we address questions of the geometrical role that a scaf…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 17 cited

Correlation of plastic events with local structure in jammed packings across spatial dimensions

Sean A. Ridout, Jason W. Rocks, Andrea J. Liu

In jammed packings, it is usually thought that local structure only plays a significant role in specific regimes. The standard deviation of the relative excess coordination, $σ_Z/…

cond-mat.soft2020

Learning-based approach to plasticity in athermal sheared amorphous packings: Improving softness

Jason W. Rocks, Sean A. Ridout, Andrea J. Liu

The plasticity of amorphous solids undergoing shear is characterized by quasi-localized rearrangements of particles. While many models of plasticity exist, the precise relationship…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 5 cited

Interplay of rearrangements, strain, and local structure during avalanche propagation

Ge Zhang, Sean Ridout, Andrea J. Liu

Jammed soft disks exhibit avalanches of particle rearrangements under quasistatic shear. We follow the avalanches using steepest descent to decompose them into individual localized…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 13 cited

Mean-Field Predictions of Scaling Prefactors Match Low-Dimensional Jammed Packings

James D Sartor, Sean A. Ridout, Eric I. Corwin

No known analytic framework precisely explains all the phenomena observed in jamming. The replica theory for glass and jamming is a mean field theory which attempts to do so by wor…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 4 cited

Structured randomness: Jamming of soft discs and pins

Prairie Wentworth-Nice, Sean A. Ridout, Brian Jenike +2

Simulations are used to find the zero temperature jamming threshold, , for soft, bidisperse disks in the presence of small fixed particles, or "pins", arranged in a lattice. T…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 220 cited

Predicting plasticity in disordered solids from structural indicators

D. Richard, M. Ozawa, S. Patinet +16

Amorphous solids lack long-range order. Therefore identifying structural defects -- akin to dislocations in crystalline solids -- that carry plastic flow in these systems remains a…