Jamming, Yielding, and Irreversible Deformation in Condensed Matter

M. Carmen Miguel, Miguel Rubi (auth.), M. Carmen Miguel, Miguel Rubi (eds.)3540300287, 9783540300281, 9783540332046

This collection ot ten tutorial reviews by leading researchers in the field introduces and renews recent advances on irreversible deformation phenomena in solid state and soft condensed matter physics. The focus in applications is on amorphous materials, crystalline solids under stress and more generally, elastic manifolds driven by external processes. This book addresses in particular nonspecialists and graduate students wishing to enter the field.

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Table of contents :
Introduction….Pages 1-2
Yielding and Jamming of Dense Suspensions….Pages 3-21
Thermal Noise Properties of Two Aging Materials….Pages 23-52
Jamming in Dense Granular Media….Pages 53-68
Rheological Aspects of the Solid-Liquid Transition in Jammed Systems….Pages 69-90
Dynamics of Disordered Elastic Systems….Pages 91-108
Edge Contamination Effects in the Dynamics of Vortex Matter in Superconductors: Memory Effects and Excess Flux-flow Noise….Pages 109-128
Out-of-equilibrium Relaxation of a Time-dependent Effective Temperature….Pages 129-136
Depinning and Plasticity of Driven Disordered Lattices….Pages 137-157
Mixing, Ergodicity and the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem in Complex Systems….Pages 159-188
Jamming and Yielding of Dislocations: from Crystal Plasticity to Superconducting Vortex Flow….Pages 189-205