On the protocol dependence of plasticity in ultra-stable amorphous solids [PDF]
, 2018 While perfect crystals may exhibit a purely elastic response to shear all the way to yielding, the response of amorphous solids is punctuated by plastic events.
Lerner, Edan +3 more
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Crystallization in suspensions of hard spheres: A Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics simulation study [PDF]
, 2010 The crystallization of a metastable melt is one of the most important non equilibrium phenomena in condensed matter physics, and hard sphere colloidal model systems have been used for several decades to investigate this process by experimental ...
Berthier L +8 more
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Observation and Characterization of the Vestige of the Jamming Transition in a Thermal 3D System
, 2012 We study the dependence of the pair-correlation function, $g(r)$, and particle mobility on packing fraction in a dense three-dimensional packing of soft colloids made of poly N-isopropyl acrylamide (pNIPAM), a thermo-sensitive gel.
Caswell, Thomas A. +3 more
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Entropy production and fluctuation theorems for active matter [PDF]
, 2017 Active biological systems reside far from equilibrium, dissipating heat even in their steady state, thus requiring an extension of conventional equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.
DeWeese, Michael R. +2 more
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Jamming Transition In Non-Spherical Particle Systems: Pentagons Versus Disks [PDF]
, 2019 We investigate the jamming transition in a quasi-2D granular material composed of regular pentagons or disks subjected to quasistatic uniaxial compression.
Barés, J. +6 more
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Spherical nematics with a threefold valence [PDF]
, 2015 We present a theoretical study of the energetics of thin nematic shells with two charge one-half defects and one charge-one defect. We determine the optimal arrangement: the defects are located on a great circle at the vertices of an isosceles triangle ...
Darmon, Alexandre +4 more
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Extreme Spontaneous Deformations of Active Crystals
, 2023 We demonstrate that two-dimensional crystals made of active particles can experience extremely large spontaneous deformations without melting. Using particles mostly interacting via pairwise repulsive forces, we show that such active crystals maintain ...
Chaté, Hugues, Cheng, Fu, Shi, Xia-qing
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Scalable and fast heterogeneous molecular simulation with predictive parallelization schemes
, 2017 Multiscale and inhomogeneous molecular systems are challenging topics in the field of molecular simulation. In particular, modeling biological systems in the context of multiscale simulations and exploring material properties are driving a permanent ...
Guzman, Horacio V. +3 more
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Physics of counterion-mediated attractions between double-stranded DNAs [PDF]
, 2013 Attraction between two indentical objects uniformly charged in solution seems intuitively surprising on the one hand because we know that such objects do repel in vacuum and on another hand because this simple mental picture is still preserved within the
Paillusson, Fabien
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Multidimensional Stationary Probability Distribution for Interacting Active Particles
, 2015 We derive the stationary probability distribution for a non-equilibrium system composed by an arbitrary number of degrees of freedom that are subject to Gaussian colored noise and a conservative potential.
Di Leonardo, Roberto +3 more
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