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We develop a transferable machine learning model which predicts structural relaxation from amorphous supercooled liquid structures. The trained networks are able to predict dynamic heterogeneity across a broad range of temperatures and time…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-27 Gerhard Jung , Giulio Biroli , Ludovic Berthier

We present a dynamic synchrotron X-ray imaging study of the effective temperature $T_{eff}$ in a vibrated granular medium. By tracking the directed motion and the fluctuation dynamics of the tracers inside, we obtained $T_{eff}$ of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-03-24 Yixin Cao , Xiaodan Zhang , Binquan Kou , Xiangting Li , Xianghui Xiao , Kamel Fezzaa , Yujie Wang

The transition between necking-mediated tensile failure of glasses, at elevated temperatures and/or low strain-rates, and shear-banding-mediated tensile failure, at low temperatures and/or high strain-rates, is investigated using tensile…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-11 David Richard , Ethen Lund , Jan Schroers , Eran Bouchbinder

We propose a dynamical theory of low-temperature shear deformation in amorphous solids. Our analysis is based on molecular-dynamics simulations of a two-dimensional, two-component noncrystalline system. These numerical simulations reveal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. L. Falk , J. S. Langer

The dynamics within active fluids, driven by internal activity of the self-propelled particles, is a subject of intense study in non-equilibrium physics. These systems have been explored using simulations, where the motion of a passive…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Saroj Kumar Nandi , Nir S. Gov

Using a realistic flexible molecule model of the fragile glass former orthoterphenyl, we calculate via molecular dynamics simulation the collective dynamic structure factor, recently measured in this system by Inelastic X-ray Scattering.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Mossa , G. Monaco , G. Ruocco , M. Sampoli , F. Sette

We have studied numerically the dynamics of spin glasses with Ising and XY symmetry (gauge glass) in space dimensions 2, 3, and 4. The nonequilibrium spin-glass susceptibility and the nonequilibrium energy per spin of samples of large size…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Helmut G. Katzgraber , I. A. Campbell

Using molecular dynamics simulations, we study dynamics of a model polymer melt composed of short chains with bead number N=10 in supercooled states. In quiescent conditions, the stress relaxation function $G(t)$ is calculated, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Ryoichi Yamamoto , Akira Onuki

We use computer simulations to study the cooling rate dependence of the stability and energetics of model glasses created at constant pressure conditions and compare the results with glasses formed at constant volume conditions. To examine…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-21 Hannah Staley , Elijah Flenner , Grzegorz Szamel

Mechanically driven glassy systems and complex fluids exhibit a wealth of rheological behaviors that call for theoretical understanding and predictive modeling. A distinct feature of these nonequilibrium systems is their dynamically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-08-30 Eran Bouchbinder , J. S. Langer

A non-equilibrium steady state thermodynamics to describe shear flows is developed using a canonical distribution approach. We construct a canonical distribution for shear flow based on the energy in the moving frame using the Lagrangian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tooru Taniguchi , Gary P. Morriss

This investigation extends earlier studies of a shear-transformation-zone (STZ) theory of plastic deformation in amorphous solids. My main purpose here is to explore the possibility that the configurational degrees of freedom of such…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 J. S. Langer

A theory for the nonlinear energy response of a system subjected to a heat bath is developed when the temperature of the heat bath is modulated sinusoidally. The theory is applied to a model glass forming system, where the landscape is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fumitaka Tagawa , Takashi Odagaki

We derive the transient-time correlation function (TTCF) expression for the computation of phase variables of inhomogenous confined atomistic fluids undergoing boundary-driven planar shear (Couette) flow at constant pressure. Using…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-24 Luca Maffioli , Edward R. Smith , James P. Ewen , Peter J. Daivis , Daniele Dini , B. D. Todd

We obtain a nonequilibrium theory for a simple model of a generic class of active dense systems consisting of self-propelled particles with a self-propulsion force, $f_0$, and persistence time, $\tau_p$, of their motion. We consider two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-22 Saroj Kumar Nandi

Using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations we study the yielding behaviour of a model cluster crystal formed by ultrasoft particles under shear. We investigate the evolution of stress as a function of strain for different shear…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-26 G. P. Shrivastav , G. Kahl

At temperatures well below their glass transition, the deformation properties of bulk metallic glasses are characterised by a sharp transition from elasticity to plasticity, a reproducible yield stress, and an approximately linear decrease…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-18 P. M. Derlet , R. Maaß

Using numerical simulations, we perform an extensive finite-size analysis of the transverse diffusion coefficient in a sheared 2D amorphous solid, over a broad range of strain rates, at temperatures up to the supercooled liquid regime. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 Joyjit Chattoraj , Christiane Caroli , Anaël Lemaître

The shear-transformation-zone (STZ) theory of plastic deformation in glass-forming materials is reformulated in light of recent progress in understanding the roles played the effective disorder temperature and entropy flow in nonequilibrium…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 J. S. Langer

We solve exactly and describe in detail a simplified scalar model for the low frequency shear rheology of foams, emulsions, slurries, etc. [P. Sollich, F. Lequeux, P. Hebraud, M.E. Cates, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2020 (1997)]. The model…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Sollich