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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…
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…
Order metrics of jammed solids: Structures, hyperuniformity, and implications for ultra-stable glasses
Ding Xu, Qinyi Liao, Ning Xu
Due to the lack of long-range order, it remains challenging to characterize the structure of disordered solids and understand the nature of the glass transition. Here we propose a…
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…
Visualizing kinetic pathways of homogeneous nucleation in colloidal crystallization
Peng Tan, Ning Xu, Lei Xu
When a system undergoes a transition from a liquid to a solid phase, it passes through multiple intermediate structures before reaching the final state. However, our knowledge on t…