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In the continuum limit, the theory of dislocations in crystals predicts a divergence in the elastic energy of the host material at a crystal geometry dependent limiting (or critical) velocity $v_c$. Explicit expressions for $v_c$ are…

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Point defects such as interstitial atoms are known to be attracted to screw dislocations. Understanding these interaction mechanisms is key to predicting the plasticity of real materials. Using a new machine learning interatomic potential…

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We argue that the three key phenomena recently observed in solid $^4$He---mass supertransport, anomalous isochoric compressibility (syringe effect), and giant plasticity---are closely linked to each other through the physics of an…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-19 Anatoly Kuklov , Lode Pollet , Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

We report studies of solid helium contained inside a torsional oscillator, at temperatures between 1.07K and 1.87K. We grew single crystals inside the oscillator using commercially pure $^4$He and $^3$He-$^4$He mixtures containing 100 ppm…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-01 Anna Eyal , Emil Polturak

Fracture material is seriously problem in daily life, and it has connection with mechanical properties itself. The mechanical properties is belief depend on dislocation movement and crack propagation in the crystal. Information about this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 Suprijadi , Ely Aprilia , Meiqorry Yusfi

Dislocation velocities and mobilities are studied by Molecular Dynamics simulations for edge and screw dislocations in pure aluminum and nickel, and edge dislocations in Al-2.5%Mg and Al-5.0%Mg random substitutional alloys using EAM…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 David L. Olmsted , Louis G. Hector , W. A. Curtin , R. J. Clifton

Dislocation pinning plays a vital role in the plastic behaviour of a crystalline solid. Here we report the first observation of the damped oscillations of a mobile dislocation after it gets pinned at an obstacle in the presence of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-12-24 M. Bhattacharya , A. Dutta , P. Mukherjee , N. Gayathri , P. Barat

Dislocations in ceramics at room temperature are attracting increasing research interest. Dislocations may bring a new perspective for tuning physical and mechanical properties in advanced ceramics. Here, we investigate the dislocation…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-09 Jiawen Zhang , Xufei Fang , Wenjun Lu

In their Letter, Haziot et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 (2013) 035301] report a novel phenomenon of giant plasticity for hcp Helium-4 quantum crystals. They assert that Helium-4 exhibits mechanical properties not found in classical plasticity…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-02 C. Zhou , C. Reichhardt , M. J. Graf , J. -J. Su , A. V. Balatsky , I. J. Beyerlein

The unique superflow-through-solid effect observed in solid Helium-4 and attributed to the quasi-one-dimensional superfluidity along the dislocation cores exhibits two extraordinary features: (i) an exponentially strong suppression of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-07 Anatoly B. Kuklov , Lode Pollet , Nikolay V. Prokof'ev , Boris V. Svistunov

A recent study demonstrated that granular crystals containing a single dislocation exhibit dislocation glide analogous to that observed in atomic-scale crystals, resulting in plastic deformation at yield stresses several orders of magnitude…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-26 Fumiaki Nakai , Takashi Uneyama , Yuto Sasaki , Kiwamu Yoshii , Hiroaki Katsuragi

Atomic crystals with dislocations deform plastically at low stresses via dislocation glide. Whether dislocation glide occurs in macroscopic frictional granular media has remained unknown. The discrete element method is employed to simulate…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Fumiaki Nakai , Takashi Uneyama , Yuto Sasaki , Kiwamu Yoshii , Hiroaki Katsuragi

In-situ powder diffraction was used to study the annealing of dislocations in the archetypal hydrogen absorbers Pd and LaNi5. The relationship between dislocations and trapped hydrogen was explored using thermally induced desorption. It was…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-20 T. A. Webb , C. J. Webb , C. V. Tapia-Bastidas , E. MacA. Gray

Dislocations are line defects in crystalline solids and often exert a significant influence on the mechanical properties of metals. Recently, there has been a growing interest in using dislocations in ceramics to enhance materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-28 Haoxuan Wang , Yifan Wang , Xu Liang , Wenshan Yu , Xufei Fang , Shengping Shen

Torsional oscillator experiments show evidence of mass decoupling in solid 4He. This decoupling is amplitude dependent, suggesting a critical velocity for supersolidity. We observe similar behavior in the elastic shear modulus. By measuring…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-04-15 James Day , Oleksandr Syshchenko , John Beamish

Frequency shifts and dissipations of a compound torsional oscillator induced by solid $^4$He samples containing $^3$He impurity concentrations ($x_3$ = 0.3, 3, 6, 12 and 25 in units of 10$^{-6}$) have been measured at two resonant mode…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-27 P. Gumann , M. C. Keiderling , D. Ruffner , H. Kojima

Recent experiments show the thermal growth of dislocation lines in unlta-pure bcc $^{3}$He. The activation energy for the growth of the dislocation lines is found to agree with the activation energy of mass diffusion. We propose that these…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Nir Gov

In this paper we present experimental data of ultrasonic velocity and attenuation obtained in a high purity crystalline sample of cooper hydrogenated by gaseous charge. The sample is oriented in the <111> crystallographic direction and aged…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-17 A. Moreno-Gobbi , G. Zamir , J. A. Eiras

Dislocation pileups directly impact the material properties of crystalline solids through the arrangement and collective motion of interacting dislocations. We study the statistical mechanics of these ordered defect structures embedded in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-03 Grace H. Zhang , David R. Nelson

Dislocations in crystalline materials are widely exploited to tailor the thermal conductivity of semiconductors and thermoelectrics, yet a critical gap persists: direct measurement of local thermal resistance at individual buried…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-20 Ruilin Mao , Bingyao Liu , Jiaxin Liu , Xiaoyue Gao , Junping Luo , Fachen Liu , Ruochen Shi , Jiade Li , Jinlong Du , Peng Gao