When slowly sheared, jammed packings respond elastically before yielding. This linear
elastic regime becomes progressively narrower as the jamming transition point is …

Jamming is an athermal transition between flowing and rigid states in amorphous systems
such as granular matter, colloidal suspensions, complex fluids and cells. The jamming …

Amorphous materials undergo a transition from liquid-like to solid-like states through
processes like rapid quenching or densification. Under external loads, they exhibit yielding …

Soft composite solids are made of inclusions dispersed within soft matrices. They are
ubiquitous in nature and form the basis of many biological tissues. In the field of materials …

Kinetically constrained spin systems are toy models of supercooled liquids and amorphous
solids. In this Perspective, we revisit the prototypical Fredrickson-Andersen (FA) kinetically …

The evacuation speed of pedestrians through bottlenecks usually leads to the faster-is-
slower (FIS) phenomenon, which relies on frictional clogging and clusters' size. However …

The physics of disordered media, from metallic glasses to colloidal suspensions, granular
matter and biological tissues, offers difficult challenges because it often occurs far from …

We use the discrete element method, taking particle contact and hydrodynamic lubrication
into account, to unveil the shear rheology of suspensions of frictionless non-Brownian rods …

The jamming transition of frictionless athermal particles is a paradigm to understand the
mechanics of amorphous materials at the atomic scale. Concepts related to the jamming …

Understanding how a flow turns into an amorphous solid is a fundamental challenge in
statistical physics, during which no apparent structural ordering appears. In the athermal …