Unifying Plasticity in Ordered and Disordered Matter using Topological and Geometrical Descriptors
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| author | Wang, Xin Xu, Yang Shang, Jin Xing, Yi Zhang, Jie Wang, Yujie Kob, Walter Baggioli, Matteo |
| author_facet | Wang, Xin Xu, Yang Shang, Jin Xing, Yi Zhang, Jie Wang, Yujie Kob, Walter Baggioli, Matteo |
| contents | Identifying the regions responsible for plastic flow in amorphous solids remains an open problem, since structural disorder seems to prevent the direct application of concepts such as dislocations, topological defects that successfully describe irreversible deformations in crystalline systems. Here, we introduce fields of dislocation, disclination, and incompatibility densities, that reduce to the standard sources of plasticity in crystals and assess their predictive power in amorphous materials. We find that, in a simulated two-dimensional glass as well in two- and three-dimensional experimental granular systems, these fields exhibit strong spatial correlations with $D^2_{\text{min}}$, the standard measure used to locate plastic events under shear in disordered solids. Unlike $D^2_{\text{min}}$, these fields also allow to disentangle rotational and translational contributions to the plastic events, revealing that rotational defects becoming dominant in three dimensions. Our approach paves the way for a unified description of plasticity in crystalline and amorphous solids. |
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| spellingShingle | Unifying Plasticity in Ordered and Disordered Matter using Topological and Geometrical Descriptors Wang, Xin Xu, Yang Shang, Jin Xing, Yi Zhang, Jie Wang, Yujie Kob, Walter Baggioli, Matteo Soft Condensed Matter Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Statistical Mechanics Identifying the regions responsible for plastic flow in amorphous solids remains an open problem, since structural disorder seems to prevent the direct application of concepts such as dislocations, topological defects that successfully describe irreversible deformations in crystalline systems. Here, we introduce fields of dislocation, disclination, and incompatibility densities, that reduce to the standard sources of plasticity in crystals and assess their predictive power in amorphous materials. We find that, in a simulated two-dimensional glass as well in two- and three-dimensional experimental granular systems, these fields exhibit strong spatial correlations with $D^2_{\text{min}}$, the standard measure used to locate plastic events under shear in disordered solids. Unlike $D^2_{\text{min}}$, these fields also allow to disentangle rotational and translational contributions to the plastic events, revealing that rotational defects becoming dominant in three dimensions. Our approach paves the way for a unified description of plasticity in crystalline and amorphous solids. |
| title | Unifying Plasticity in Ordered and Disordered Matter using Topological and Geometrical Descriptors |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Statistical Mechanics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20847 |