Publications

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Ongoing:

Local heating/cooling of glassy matter
Vinay Vaibhav, Juergen Horbach, and Pinaki Chaudhuri.

Viscoelastic response of PMMA polymers
Vinay Vaibhav, Ankit Singh, Timothy W. Sirk, Caterina Czibula, and Alessio Zaccone.

Theory of distribution skewness effect on polydisperse random close packing
Vinay Vaibhav, Carmine Anzivino, and Alessio Zaccone.

Published:

Viscosity of polymer melts using non-affine theory based on vibrational modes
Ankit Singh, Vinay Vaibhav, Timothy W. Sirk, and Alessio Zaccone
J. Chem. Phys. 162, 244504 (2025).
arXiv:2503.02806

Experimental identification of topological defects in 2D colloidal glass
Vinay Vaibhav, Arabinda Bera, Amelia C. Y. Liu, Matteo Baggioli, Peter Keim, and Alessio Zaccone
Nature Communications 16, 55 (2025).

Time-scale bridging in atomistic simulations of epoxy polymer mechanics using non-affine deformation theory
Vinay Vaibhav, Timothy W. Sirk, and Alessio Zaccone
Macromolecules 57(23), 10885 (2024).
arXiv:2406.02113

Entropic Timescales of Dynamic Heterogeneity in Supercooled Liquid
Vinay Vaibhav, and Suman Dutta
Phys. Rev. E 109, L062102 (2024).
arXiv:2308.13720

Controlled Mechanical Failure in Heterogeneous Glasses
Vinay Vaibhav, Juergen Horbach, and Pinaki Chaudhuri
Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 095601 (2023).

Rheological response of a glass-forming liquid having large bidispersity
Vinay Vaibhav, Juergen Horbach, and Pinaki Chaudhuri
Soft Matter 18, 4427-4436 (2022).
arXiv:2202.12612

Finite-size effects in the diffusion dynamics of a glass-forming binary mixture with large size ratio
Vinay Vaibhav, Juergen Horbach, and Pinaki Chaudhuri
J. Chem. Phys. 156 (24), 244501 (2022).
arXiv:2202.12189

Influence of thermalisation protocol on Poiseuille flow of confined soft glass
Vinay Vaibhav, and Pinaki Chaudhuri
Phys. of Fluids 33, 053103 (2021).

Response of glassy liquids to thermal gradients
Vinay Vaibhav, Juergen Horbach, and Pinaki Chaudhuri
Phys. Rev. E 101, 022605 (2020).

Equilibrium properties of blackbody radiation with an ultraviolet energy cut-off
Dheeraj Kumar Mishra, Nitin Chandra, and Vinay Vaibhav
Annals of Phys. 385, 605 (2017).

News Coverage

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A new atomistic route to viscosity—even near the glass transition

Physicists experimentally observe topological defects in glasses for the first time

Scientists solve one of the hardest problems in the computational atomic-scale mechanics of materials

Condensed matter physics: topological defects discovered in amorphous solids