| Yielding and Jamming of Dense Suspensions | p. 3 |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Arrest in Colloidal Fluids | p. 4 |
| Mode Coupling Theory (MCT) | p. 5 |
| Yield and Flow of Glasses: Shear Thinning | p. 6 |
| A Microscopic Approach | p. 6 |
| Attractive Interactions | p. 9 |
| Schematic MCT Models | p. 10 |
| Shear Thickening and Jamming | p. 11 |
| Shear Thickening within MCT | p. 11 |
| Dilatancy and Granulation | p. 13 |
| Glassy versus Hydrodynamic Thickening | p. 15 |
| Static versus Dynamic Yield Stress | p. 15 |
| Viscosity Bifurcation | p. 16 |
| Rheological Instability and Chaos | p. 17 |
| Conclusion | p. 18 |
| References | p. 19 |
| Thermal Noise Properties of Two Aging Materials | p. 23 |
| Introduction | p. 23 |
| Dielectric Noise in a Polymer Glass | p. 25 |
| Experimental Setup | p. 25 |
| Response and Noise Measurements | p. 27 |
| Statistical Analysis of the Noise | p. 31 |
| Influence of the Quench Speed | p. 33 |
| Teff after a Slow Quench | p. 34 |
| Mechanical Measurements on a Polycarbonate Cantilever | p. 35 |
| FDT in a Mechanical Oscillator | p. 36 |
| Experimental Apparatus | p. 38 |
| Experimental Results | p. 39 |
| Thermal Noise in a Colloidal Glass | p. 40 |
| Experimental Setup | p. 41 |
| Electric Noise Measurements in Laponite | p. 42 |
| Influence of Concentration | p. 45 |
| Mechanical Noise on Laponite | p. 45 |
| Discussion and Conclusions | p. 46 |
| References | p. 50 |
| Jamming in Dense Granular Media | p. 53 |
| Introduction | p. 53 |
| Statistical Mechanics of Dense Granular Materials | p. 55 |
| Monodisperse Hard Sphere Model for Granular Materials | p. 56 |
| Stationary States and Time Averages | p. 57 |
| Ensemble Averages | p. 59 |
| Mean Field Solution in the Bethe-Peierls Approximation | p. 60 |
| Hard Spheres with an Internal Degree of Freedom | p. 62 |
| Conclusions | p. 66 |
| References | p. 67 |
| Rheological Aspects of the Solid-Liquid Transition in Jammed Systems | p. 69 |
| Introduction | p. 69 |
| The Usual Concept of Yield Stress Fluids | p. 70 |
| Yielding | p. 70 |
| Thixotropy | p. 72 |
| Flow Characteristics of Simple Yield Stress Fluids | p. 73 |
| Rheological Behavior of Jammed Systems from Local Rheometry | p. 76 |
| Flow Characteristics at the Solid-liquid Transition and Shear-banding | p. 76 |
| Consequences in Rheometry | p. 79 |
| Extreme Shear Localization | p. 80 |
| The Solid-liquid Transition in Jammed Systems: A Dynamic Phenomenon | p. 83 |
| Yielding and Thixotropy | p. 83 |
| From Plasticity to Liquid Flow with Increase in Degree of Jamming | p. 86 |
| Conclusion | p. 88 |
| References | p. 88 |
| Dynamics of Disordered Elastic Systems | p. 91 |
| Introduction | p. 91 |
| Basic Concepts | p. 93 |
| Creep, Phenomenology | p. 96 |
| Around Four Dimensions | p. 98 |
| Low Dimensional Situation: Domain Walls | p. 101 |
| Conclusions and Open Questions | p. 106 |
| References | p. 107 |
| Edge Contamination Effects in the Dynamics of Vortex Matter in Superconductors: Memory Effects and Excess Flux-flow Noise | p. 109 |
| Introduction: Vortex Matter | p. 110 |
| Edge Contamination | p. 1ll |
| Critical Current in the Edge Contamination Model | p. 112 |
| Strip and Corbino Configuration | p. 113 |
| Memory Effects, Dynamical Instabilities and Edge Contamination | p. 115 |
| Low Frequency Noise | p. 118 |
| Simplified Model of the Noise | p. 119 |
| Experimental Results | p. 120 |
| Velocity vs. Density Fluctuations | p. 123 |
| Conclusions | p. 125 |
| References | p. 126 |
| Out-of-equilibrium Relaxation of a Time-dependent Effective Temperature | p. 129 |
| Assumptions and Constitutive Equations | p. 129 |
| Out-of-equilibrium Relaxation | p. 131 |
| Conclusion | p. 135 |
| References | p. 136 |
| Depinning and Plasticity of Driven Disordered Lattices | p. 137 |
| Introduction | p. 137 |
| Depinning of Noninteracting Particles | p. 139 |
| Depinning of an Extended Medium | p. 142 |
| Elastic Model | p. 143 |
| Viscoelastic Model | p. 144 |
| Viscoelastic Coupling as an Effective Description of Topological Defects | p. 145 |
| Mean-field Solution | p. 147 |
| Mean-field Theory for Viscous Model: K ≠ 0, ¿ ≠ 0 | p. 148 |
| Mean-field Theory for VE Model: K ≠ 0 and ¿ ≠ 0 | p. 150 |
| Relationship to Other Models and to Experiments | p. 152 |
| References | p. 155 |
| Mixing, Ergodicity and the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem in Complex Systems | p. 159 |
| Introduction | p. 159 |
| Diffusion | p. 161 |
| Reaction Rates | p. 164 |
| Complex Systems have Memory | p. 166 |
| Random Walk | p. 168 |
| Noise | p. 170 |
| Reversibility and Correlation Functions | p. 171 |
| Mixing, Ergodicity, and the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem | p. 174 |
| Ballistic Motion | p. 176 |
| Shape of Things to Come | p. 178 |
| Spatio-temporal Conjecture for Disordered System | p. 179 |
| Conclusion | p. 179 |
| References | p. 181 |
| Jamming and Yielding of Dislocations: from Crystal Plasticity to Superconducting Vortex Flow | p. 189 |
| Introduction | p. 189 |
| Dislocations | p. 191 |
| Crystal Dislocations | p. 191 |
| Vortex Lattice | p. 191 |
| Experimental Background | p. 192 |
| Acoustic Emission and Dislocation Avalanches | p. 192 |
| Andrade Creep | p. 193 |
| Solid Solution Hardening | p. 193 |
| Plasticity in Vortex Matter | p. 194 |
| Jamming and Yielding in Crystal Plasticity | p. 194 |
| Two Dimensional Model of Interacting Dislocations | p. 194 |
| Dislocation Jamming and Andrade Creep | p. 195 |
| Dislocation Avalanches | p. 196 |
| Plastic Yielding in the Vortex Lattice | p. 197 |
| Depinning of Dislocation Systems | p. 199 |
| Isolated Dislocations | p. 199 |
| Pileup and Low Angle Grain Boundaries | p. 200 |
| Zener Pinning in Grain Growth | p. 201 |
| Conclusions | p. 203 |
| References | p. 203 |
| Index | p. 207 |
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