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Aug 2026
A Dynamical Mechanism for Irreversibility in Cyclically Driven Amorphous Solids
Amorphous solids subjected to athermal quasistatic oscillatory shear undergo a transition from periodic reversible dynamics to irreversible diffusive dynamics at yielding. How irreversibility arises in such deterministic, strongly dissipative systems remains unclear. Here we directly test the proposal that post-yield i...
S. Chatterjee, Asaf Szulc, I. Regev
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