Publications

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Ongoing:

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

Atomistic Framework for Glassy Polymer Viscoelasticity Across 20 Frequency Decades
Ankit Singh, Vinay Vaibhav, Caterina Czibula, Astrid Macher, Petra Christöfl, Karin Bartl, Gregor Trimmel, Timothy W Sirk, and Alessio Zaccone.
arXiv:2511.18406

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

Jamming in dense active matter
Vinay Vaibhav, Peter Sollich, and Pinaki Chaudhuri.

Avalanches in dense active matter
Vinay Vaibhav, and Peter Sollich.

Slowing down of dynamics and the density scaling in soft spheres glass formers
Vinay Vaibhav, Ankit Singh, Swarn Lata Singh, and Yashwant Singh.

Persistently Non-Gaussian Metastable Liquids
Vinay Vaibhav, Tamoghna Das, and Suman Dutta.
arXiv:2511.07951

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).

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).

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

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).

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).

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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