3 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2026
Delta-Function Kicks are Optimal for Rapidly Driven Inertial Stochastic Systems
Steven Blaber
Optimal control helps guide our understanding of stochastic thermodynamics, leading to universal properties and geometric formulations. Among the initially surprising properties of…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026
Mechanical loss in amorphous solids: spatial correlations, interacting transitions, and annealed thermodynamic pathways
Steven Blaber, Jörg Rottler
The disordered and defect-rich structure of amorphous solids forms heterogeneous, high-dimensional energy landscapes. Such an energy landscape can be described by a discrete-state…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024
Connected Network Model for the Mechanical Loss of Amorphous Materials
Steven Blaber, Daniel Bruns, Jörg Rottler
Dissipation in amorphous solids at low frequencies is commonly attributed to activated transitions of isolated two-level systems (TLS) that come in resonance with elastic or electr…