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most citedExperimental observation of gapped shear waves and liquid-like to gas-like dynamical crossover in active granular matter

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cond-mat.soft2026

String Model Predicts Relaxation in Sheared Glass-Forming Liquids

Zi-Long Wang, Qi-Lu Yuan, Yun-Jiang Wang +4

Understanding how structural relaxation evolves from equilibrium to nonequilibrium conditions remains a central problem in glass physics. Using simulations of model glass formers u…

cond-mat.soft2026

Unifying Plasticity in Ordered and Disordered Matter using Topological and Geometrical Descriptors

Xin Wang, Yang Xu, Jin Shang +5

Identifying the regions responsible for plastic flow in amorphous solids remains an open problem, since structural disorder seems to prevent the direct application of concepts such…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Topological Defects in Amorphous Solids

Matteo Baggioli, Michael L. Falk, Walter Kob

Topological defects (TDs) are crucial for understanding important physical properties of crystalline materials including mechanical failure, ion transport, and two-dimensional melt…

cond-mat.soft2025

A geometric approach to predicting plasticity in disordered solids

Long-Zhou Huang, Xu Yang, Min-Qiang Jiang +2

It was recently shown that vortex-like topological defects with negative winding number in the vibrational modes of a two-dimensional glass under quasistatic shear correlate strong…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 1 cited

A flat-band perspective on the boson peak in amorphous solids

Shivam Mahajan, Long-Zhou Huang, Cunyuan Jiang +4

The boson peak is a characteristic anomaly of amorphous solids broadly defined as a low-energy excess in the density of states and heat capacity compared to the textbook prediction…

cond-mat.soft2025

Topological defects govern plasticity and shear band formation in two-dimensional amorphous solids

Xin Wang, Jin Shang, Yujie Wang +2

Understanding the fundamental mechanisms behind plastic instabilities and shear band formation in amorphous media under applied deformation remains a long-standing challenge. Lever…

cond-mat.soft2025

Tracking shear mode dynamics across the glass transition in a 2D colloidal system

Jimin Bai, Peter Keim, Matteo Baggioli

Long-wavelength collective shear dynamics are profoundly different in solids and liquids. According to the theoretical framework developed by Maxwell and Frenkel, collective shear…

cond-mat.soft2025

Lift force in chiral, compressible granular matter

Jarosław Pawłowski, Marcin Dudziak, Matteo Baggioli +2

Micropolar fluid theory, an extension of classical Newtonian fluid dynamics, incorporates angular velocities and rotational inertias and has long been a foundational framework for…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 3 cited

Topological signatures of collective dynamics and turbulent-like energy cascades in apolar active granular

Zihan Zheng, Cunyuan Jiang, Yangrui Chen +2

Active matter refers to a broad class of non-equilibrium systems where energy is continuously injected at the level of individual ``particles". These systems exhibit emergent colle…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 1 cited

Stress-stress correlations in two-dimensional amorphous and crystalline solids

Jimin Bai, Long-Zhou Huang, Jin Shang +3

Stress-stress correlations in crystalline solids with long-range order can be straightforwardly derived using elasticity theory. In contrast, the `emergent elasticity' of amorphous…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Spotting structural defects in crystals from the topology of vibrational modes

Long-Zhou Huang, Yun-Jiang Wang, Matteo Baggioli

Because of the inevitably disordered background, structural defects are not well-defined concepts in amorphous solids. In order to overcome this difficulty, it has been recently pr…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 3 cited

Spectral Decomposition of Liquid Viscosity into Instantaneous Normal Modes

Long-Zhou Huang, Bingyu Cui, Min-Qiang Jiang +2

Viscosity, the resistance of a liquid to flow, is driven by atomic-scale friction but its microscopic origin remains poorly understood. We use a theoretical framework based on nona…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 12 cited

Experimental observation of gapped shear waves and liquid-like to gas-like dynamical crossover in active granular matter

Cunyuan Jiang, Zihan Zheng, Yangrui Chen +2

Unlike crystalline solids, liquids lack long-range order, resulting in diffusive shear fluctuations rather than propagating waves. Simulations predict that liquids exhibit a -ga…