Self-Consistent Current Response Theory of Unjamming and Vibrational Modes in Low-Temperature Amorphous Solids

We study amorphous solids with strong elastic disorder and find an unjamming instability that exists, inter alia, in a harmonic model built using Euclidean random matrices (ERMs). Employing the Zwanzig-Mori projection operator formalism and Gaussian factorization approximations, we develop a first-p...

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Main Authors: Florian Vogel, Philipp Baumgärtel, Matthias Fuchs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2025-02-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.15.011030