Understanding plastic deformation in thermal glasses from single-soft-spot dynamics

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Schoenholz, S S ^a   Liu, A J ^a   Riggleman, R A ^b   Rottler, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Condensed Matter Physics; Nonlinear Dynamics; Soft Matter

Indexed keywords

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; DYNAMICS; PLASTICITY;

AMORPHOUS SOLIDS; DYNAMICAL BEHAVIORS; LENNARD-JONES GLASS; LOW-FREQUENCY VIBRATIONAL MODES; QUASI-STATIC; SOFT MATTER; TIME-SCALES; ZERO TEMPERATURES;

GLASS;

EID: 84905482183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.031014     Document Type: Article

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