activity
20242026
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5 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Anomalous phonon dispersion near yielding in athermal crystals

Fumiaki Nakai, Michio Otsuki, Kuniyasu Saitoh +1

Vibrational properties of ordered athermal solids near yielding remain poorly understood. We show that yielding in a sheared crystal is governed not by a single localized instabili…

cond-mat.soft2026

Constitutive flow law for hydrogel granular rafts near the brittle-ductile transition

Yuto Sasaki, Hiroaki Katsuragi

Spatially varying flow laws have been identified in dry granular flow, yet their applicability to unjammed suspensions remains unclear. This study demonstrates that the quasistatic…

physics.geo-ph2025

Origin of slow earthquake statistics in low-friction soft granular shear

Yuto Sasaki, Hiroaki Katsuragi

Slow earthquakes differ from regular earthquakes in their slower moment release and size distribution dominated by smaller events. However, the physical origin of these slow earthq…

cond-mat.soft2025

Dislocation Glides in Monolayered Granular Media: Effect of Lattice Constant

Fumiaki Nakai, Takashi Uneyama, Yuto Sasaki +2

A recent study demonstrated that granular crystals containing a single dislocation exhibit dislocation glide analogous to that observed in atomic-scale crystals, resulting in plast…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Dislocation Glides in Granular Media

Fumiaki Nakai, Takashi Uneyama, Yuto Sasaki +2

Atomic crystals with dislocations deform plastically at low stresses via dislocation glide. Whether dislocation glide occurs in macroscopic frictional granular media has remained u…