A stability-reversibility map unifies elasticity, plasticity, yielding, and jamming in hard sphere glasses.

ABSTRACT: Amorphous solids, such as glasses, have complex responses to deformations, with substantial consequences in material design and applications. In this respect, two intertwined aspects are important: stability and reversibility. It is crucial to understand, on the one hand, how a glass may become unstable due to increased plasticity under shear deformations, and, on the other hand, to what extent the response is reversible, meaning how much a system is able to recover the original configuration once the perturbation is released. Here, we focus on assemblies of hard spheres as the simplest model of amorphous solids such as colloidal glasses and granular matter. We prepare glass states quenched from equilibrium supercooled liquid states, which are obtained by using the swap Monte Carlo algorit

SUBMITTER: Jin Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6286169 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature