3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
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…
cond-mat.soft2025
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…
cond-mat.soft2024
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…