2021/11/22 by Bhanu Prasad Bhowmik, Bhowmik, Bhanu Prasad, Michael Moshe +3 · 2 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions #Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn) #FOS: Physical sciences #Material Dynamics and Properties #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #Theoretical and Computational Physics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2111.11198
openalex publication_date 2021/11/22 · openalex created_date 2022/07/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Recent progress in studying the physics of amorphous solids has revealed that mechanical strains can be strongly screened by the formation of plastic events that are typically quadrupolar in nature. The theory stipulated that gradients in the density of the quadrupoles act as emergent dipole sources, leading to strong screening and to qualitative changes in the mechanical response, as seen for example in the displacement field. In this Letter we firstly offer direct measurements of the dipole field, independently of any theoretical assumptions, and secondly we demonstrate detailed agreement with the recently proposed theory. These two goals are achieved using data from both simulations and experiments. Finally we show how measurements of the dipole fields pinpoint the theory parameters that determine the profile of the displacement field.