3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Self-organization and memory formation in two-dimensional jammed deformable matter under cyclic compression
Rahul Nayak, Satyavani Vemparala, Pinaki Chaudhuri
We study the athermal mechanical response of deformable ring assemblies to quasistatic compression. Beyond jamming, further densification induces buckling of rings, resulting in ma…
cond-mat.soft2025
Glassy dynamics in two-dimensional ring polymers: size versus stiffness polydispersity
Rahul Nayak, Pinaki Chaudhuri, Satyavani Vemparala
Soft glassy materials often consist of deformable objects. Here, we use a two-dimensional assembly of semi-flexible ring polymers as a model system to investigate how polydispersit…
cond-mat.soft2024
Two-dimensional squishy glass: yielding under oscillatory shear
Sayantan Ghosh, Rahul Nayak, Satyavani Vemparala +1
The yielding response to an imposed oscillatory shear is investigated for a model two-dimensional dense glass composed of bidisperse, deformable polymer rings, with the ring stiffn…