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 ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune and CSIR-NCL (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research – National Chemical Laboratory) Pune have shown ...

Condensed-matter physics is the study of substances in their solid state. This includes the ... such as diamond, and amorphous materials in which atomic position is more irregular, like in glass.