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Unravelling the multiscale surface mechanics of soft solids
Nicolas Bain, Lawrence A. Wilen, Dominic Gerber +7
Soft solids and their surface deformations control the response of many natural and artificial systems. Yet, their underlying properties are vigorously debated, particularly for po…
Designing athermal disordered solids with automatic differentiation
Mengjie Zu, Carl Goodrich
The ability to control forces between sub-micron-scale building blocks offers considerable potential for designing new materials through self-assembly. A typical paradigm is to fir…
Information density, structure and entropy in equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems
Mengjie Zu, Arunkumar Bupathy, Daan Frenkel +1
During a spontaneous change, a macroscopic physical system will evolve towards a macro-state with more realizations. This observation is at the basis of the Statistical Mechanical…
The Spectrum of Structure for Jammed and Unjammed Soft Disks
A. T. Chieco, M. Zu, A. J. Liu +2
We investigate the short, medium, and long-range structure of soft disk configurations for a wide range of area fractions and simulation protocols by converting the real-space spec…
Self-assembling two-dimensional quasicrystals in simple systems of monodisperse soft-core disks
Mengjie Zu, Peng Tan, Ning Xu
In previous approaches to form quasicrystals, multiple competing length scales involved in particle size, shape or interaction potential are believed to be necessary. It is unexpec…
Role of disorder in determining the vibrational properties of mass-spring networks
Yunhuan Nie, Hua Tong, Jun Liu +2
By introducing four fundamental types of disorders into a two-dimensional triangular lattice separately, we determine the role of each type of disorder in the vibration of the resu…
Density affects the nature of the hexatic-liquid transition in two-dimensional melting of core-softened systems
Mengjie Zu, Jun Liu, Hua Tong +1
We find that both continuous and discontinuous hexatic-liquid transitions can happen in the melting of two-dimensional solids of soft-core disks. For three typical model systems, H…