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Volume 99, Number 2, July 2012
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Article Number | 26003 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Structural, Mechanical and Thermal Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/99/26003 | |
Published online | 24 July 2012 |
The plastic response of magnetoelastic amorphous solids
1 Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science - Rehovot 76100, Israel
2 Department of Physics, Emory University - Atlanta, GA, USA
(a) itamat.procaccia@gmail.com
Received: 2 May 2012
Accepted: 21 June 2012
We address the cross-effects between mechanical strains and magnetic fields on the plastic response of magnetoelastic amorphous solids. It is well known that plasticity in non-magnetic amorphous solids under external strain γ is dominated by the codimension-1 saddle-node bifurcation in which an eigenvalue of the Hessian matrix vanishes at γP like . This square-root singularity determines much of the statistical physics of elasto-plasticity, and in particular that of the stress-strain curves under athermal-quasistatic conditions. In this letter we discuss the much richer physics that can be expected in magnetic amorphous solids. Firstly, magnetic amorphous solids exhibit codimension-2 plastic instabilities, when an external strain and an external magnetic field are applied simultaneously. Secondly, the phase diagrams promise a rich array of new effects that have been barely studied; this opens up a novel and extremely rich research program for magnetoplastic materials.
PACS: 62.20.F- – Deformation and plasticity / 75.50.Kj – Amorphous and quasicrystalline magnetic materials / 62.20.fq – Plasticity and superplasticity
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