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  "abstract": "A recently introduced anharmonic mean-field model unifiedly reproduced a broad range of low-temperature glass phenomena --- including harmonic nonphononic spectral properties, linear micromechanics and strongly driven elasto-plastic dynamics --- indicating that its underlying energy landscape is intrinsically glassy. Here, we apply a nonlinear modes framework to the model and derive analytic predictions for the asymptotic distributions of activation barriers $p(Δ{U})\\!\\sim\\!(Δ{U})^{1/4}$ and the external force needed for the onset of plasticity $p(f_{\\rm c})\\sim f_{\\rm c}^{2/3}$, for their extreme-value scaling and for $\\langleΔ{U}\\rangle$ beyond the asymptotic regime. These predictions are expected to equally apply to the mean-field model and to finite-dimensional glasses. We develop efficient algorithms for sampling minima and saddles of the model's glassy potential energy landscape, and quantitatively confirm the theoretical predictions. This progress is enabled by identifying a subset of collective degrees of freedom that are physically relevant for activated glassy dynamics, which like the theoretical predictions should apply to realistic glasses.",
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    {
      "name": "Makoto Suda"
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    {
      "name": "Edan Lerner"
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    {
      "name": "Eran Bouchbinder"
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  "doi": "10.48550/arxiv.2610.09619",
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.09619",
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  "published": "2026-10-07",
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  "title": "Predicting activation-barrier and plasticity-onset statistics in a model of glasses",
  "title_text": "Predicting activation-barrier and plasticity-onset statistics in a model of glasses",
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  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/enjhjxkymsjtd",
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