A time-honored approach in theoretical materials science revolves around the search for
basic mechanisms that should incorporate key feature of the phenomenon under …

The studies on dynamics and deformation in glassy materials are particularly challenging
because of their strongly disordered atomic structure. Here, by probing the changes in the …

Atom-based modeling and simulation are essential for the understanding and development
of structural materials such as crystalline and amorphous metals. Classical molecular …

This article is written in memory of Pierre Hohenberg with appreciation for his deep
commitment to the basic principles of theoretical physics. I summarize recent developments …

Understanding the atomistic mechanisms of inelastic deformation in metallic glasses (MGs)
remains challenging due to their amorphous structure, where local carriers of plasticity …

Amorphous solids lack long-range order. Therefore identifying structural defects—akin to
dislocations in crystalline solids—that carry plastic flow in these systems remains a daunting …

Requirements for room temperature plasticity in oxides glasses have been only recently
established. While atomistic mechanisms of this type of plasticity have been reported, it …

Crystal plasticity is mediated through dislocations, which form knotted configurations in a
complex energy landscape. Once they disentangle and move, they may also be impeded by …

Disordered solids are ubiquitous in engineering and everyday use. Although research has
made considerable progress in the last decades, our understanding of the mechanics of …

Plasticity modelling has long relied on phenomenological models based on ad-hoc
assumption of constitutive relations, which are then fitted to limited data. Other work is based …