Mean-Field Description of Plastic Flow in Amorphous Solids

Failure and flow of amorphous materials are central to various phenomena including earthquakes and landslides. There is accumulating evidence that the yielding transition between a flowing and an arrested phase is a critical phenomenon, but the associated exponents are not understood, even at a mean...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jie Lin, Matthieu Wyart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2016-01-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.011005