Revealing key structural features hidden in liquids and glasses

H Tanaka, H Tong, R Shi, J Russo - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
A great success of solid state physics comes from the characterization of crystal structures in
the reciprocal (wave vector) space. The power of structural characterization in Fourier space …

Bond orientational order in liquids: Towards a unified description of water-like anomalies, liquid-liquid transition, glass transition, and crystallization: Bond orientational …

H Tanaka - The European Physical Journal E, 2012 - Springer
There are at least three fundamental states of matter, depending upon temperature and
pressure: gas, liquid, and solid (crystal). These states are separated by first-order phase …

Connecting local yield stresses with plastic activity in amorphous solids

S Patinet, D Vandembroucq, ML Falk - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
In model amorphous solids produced via differing quench protocols, a strong correlation is
established between local yield stress measured by direct local probing of shear stress …

Dynamic heterogeneity and non-Gaussian statistics for acetylcholine receptors on live cell membrane

W He, H Song, Y Su, L Geng, BJ Ackerson… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The Brownian motion of molecules at thermal equilibrium usually has a finite correlation time
and will eventually be randomized after a long delay time, so that their displacement follows …

Local yield stress statistics in model amorphous solids

A Barbot, M Lerbinger, A Hernandez-Garcia… - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
We develop and extend a method presented by Patinet, Vandembroucq, and Falk [Phys.
Rev. Lett. 117, 045501 (2016) PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett. 117.045501] to …

Structural origin of relaxation in dense colloidal suspensions

R Sahu, M Sharma, P Schall… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Amorphous solids relax via slow molecular rearrangement induced by thermal fluctuations
or applied stress. Microscopic structural signatures predicting these structural relaxations …

Emergent solidity of amorphous materials as a consequence of mechanical self-organisation

H Tong, S Sengupta, H Tanaka - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Amorphous solids have peculiar properties distinct from crystals. One of the most
fundamental mysteries is the emergence of solidity in such nonequilibrium, disordered state …

Revisiting the structure–property relationship of metallic glasses: Common spatial correlation revealed as a hidden rule

D Wei, J Yang, MQ Jiang, BC Wei, YJ Wang, LH Dai - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
What determines the glass property remains one of the major unsolved problems in both
condensed matter physics and materials science. Despite extensive research attempting to …

Heterogeneous activation, local structure, and softness in supercooled colloidal liquids

X Ma, ZS Davidson, T Still, RJS Ivancic… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We experimentally characterize heterogeneous nonexponential relaxation in bidisperse
supercooled colloidal liquids utilizing a recent concept called “softness”[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114 …

Botan: Bond targeting network for prediction of slow glassy dynamics by machine learning relative motion

H Shiba, M Hanai, T Suzumura… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Recent developments in machine learning have enabled accurate predictions of the
dynamics of slow structural relaxation in glass-forming systems. However, existing machine …