The deformation and flow of disordered solids, such as metallic glasses and concentrated
emulsions, involves swift localized rearrangements of particles that induce a long-range …

There is striking evidence that the dynamics of the Earth crust is controlled by a wide variety
of mutually dependent mechanisms acting at different spatial and temporal scales. The …

We combine an analytically solvable mean-field elasto-plastic model with molecular
dynamics simulations of a generic glass former to demonstrate that, depending on their …

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 …

Understanding and interpreting dynamics of functional materials in situ is a grand challenge
in physics and materials science due to the difficulty of experimentally probing materials at …

Self-organization, and transitions from reversible to irreversible behavior, of interacting
particle assemblies driven by externally imposed stresses or deformation is of interest in …

We give a bird's-eye view of the plastic deformation of crystals aimed at the statistical
physics community, as well as a broad introduction to the statistical theories of forced rigid …

The variation in Coulomb failure stress (CFS) plays a crucial role in either increasing or
decreasing seismic activity. In cases in which the standard epidemic‐type aftershock …

The thermally activated creep motion of an elastic interface weakly driven on a disordered
landscape is one of the best examples of glassy universal dynamics. Its understanding has …

Mechanics plays a key role in the evolution of the sea ice cover through its control on drift,
on momentum and thermal energy exchanges between the polar oceans and the …