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_id: '7773'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'For more than a century, physicists have described real solids in terms of
perturbations about perfect crystalline order1. Such an approach takes us only
so far: a glass, another ubiquitous form of rigid matter, cannot be described
in any meaningful sense as a defected crystal2. Is there an opposite extreme to
a crystal—a solid with complete disorder—that forms an alternative starting point
for understanding real materials? Here, we argue that the solid comprising particles
with finite-ranged interactions at the jamming transition3,4,5 constitutes such
a limit. It has been shown that the physics associated with this transition can
be extended to interactions that are long ranged6. We demonstrate that jamming
physics is not restricted to amorphous systems, but dominates the behaviour of
solids with surprisingly high order. Just as the free-electron and tight-binding
models represent two idealized cases from which to understand electronic structure1,
we identify two extreme limits of mechanical behaviour. Thus, the physics of jamming
can be set side by side with the physics of crystals to provide an organizing
structure for understanding the mechanical properties of solids over the entire
spectrum of disorder.'
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article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Carl Peter
full_name: Goodrich, Carl Peter
id: EB352CD2-F68A-11E9-89C5-A432E6697425
last_name: Goodrich
orcid: 0000-0002-1307-5074
- first_name: Andrea J.
full_name: Liu, Andrea J.
last_name: Liu
- first_name: Sidney R.
full_name: Nagel, Sidney R.
last_name: Nagel
citation:
ama: Goodrich CP, Liu AJ, Nagel SR. Solids between the mechanical extremes of order
and disorder. Nature Physics. 2014;10(8):578-581. doi:10.1038/nphys3006
apa: Goodrich, C. P., Liu, A. J., & Nagel, S. R. (2014). Solids between the
mechanical extremes of order and disorder. Nature Physics. Springer Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3006
chicago: Goodrich, Carl Peter, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel. “Solids between
the Mechanical Extremes of Order and Disorder.” Nature Physics. Springer
Nature, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3006.
ieee: C. P. Goodrich, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel, “Solids between the mechanical
extremes of order and disorder,” Nature Physics, vol. 10, no. 8. Springer
Nature, pp. 578–581, 2014.
ista: Goodrich CP, Liu AJ, Nagel SR. 2014. Solids between the mechanical extremes
of order and disorder. Nature Physics. 10(8), 578–581.
mla: Goodrich, Carl Peter, et al. “Solids between the Mechanical Extremes of Order
and Disorder.” Nature Physics, vol. 10, no. 8, Springer Nature, 2014, pp.
578–81, doi:10.1038/nphys3006.
short: C.P. Goodrich, A.J. Liu, S.R. Nagel, Nature Physics 10 (2014) 578–581.
date_created: 2020-04-30T11:43:29Z
date_published: 2014-07-06T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T08:15:26Z
day: '06'
doi: 10.1038/nphys3006
extern: '1'
intvolume: ' 10'
issue: '8'
language:
- iso: eng
month: '07'
oa_version: None
page: 578-581
publication: Nature Physics
publication_identifier:
issn:
- 1745-2473
- 1745-2481
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer Nature
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Solids between the mechanical extremes of order and disorder
type: journal_article
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volume: 10
year: '2014'
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