We want to find out when an amorphous solid loses its stability and starts to slide like a pile of sand," says Fuchs. Based on the "Euclidean random matrix" (ERM) models, the researchers uncovered ...

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Understanding the formation of amorphous solids, such as glasses, colloids and granular materials, is a challenge. As with many long-standing problems, its description is deceptively simple ...