2 papers
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.soft2025
Friction-controlled reentrant aging and fluidization in granular materials
Ye Yuan, Walter Kob, Hajime Tanaka
Granular materials densify under repeated mechanical perturbations, a nonequilibrium dynamics that underlies many natural and industrial processes. Because granular relaxation is g…