Avalanches and deformation in glasses and disordered systems
Abstract
In this chapter, we discuss avalanches in glasses and disordered systems, and the macroscopic dynamical behavior that they mediate. We briefly review three classes of systems where avalanches are observed: depinning transition of disordered interfaces, yielding of amorphous materials, and the jamming transition. Without extensive formalism, we discuss results gleaned from theoretical approaches -- mean-field theory, scaling and exponent relations, the renormalization group, and a few results from replica theory. We focus both on the remarkably sophisticated physics of avalanches and on relatively new approaches to the macroscopic flow behavior exhibited past the depinning/yielding transition.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2208.04090,
title = {Avalanches and deformation in glasses and disordered systems},
author = {Alberto Rosso and James P. Sethna and Matthieu Wyart},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.04090},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
Contribution to the edited volume "Spin Glass Theory and Far Beyond - Replica Symmetry Breaking after 40 Years", World Scientific