We give a bird's-eye view of the plastic deformation of crystals aimed at the statistical physics community, as well as a broad introduction to the statistical theories of forced rigid systems aimed at the plasticity community. Memory effects in magnets, spin glasses, charge density waves, and dilute colloidal suspensions are discussed in relation to the onset of plastic yielding in crystals. Dislocation avalanches and complex dislocation tangles are discussed via a brief introduction to the renormalization group and scaling. Analogies to emergent scale invariance in fracture, jamming, coarsening, and a variety of depinning transitions are explored. Dislocation dynamics in crystals challenge nonequilibrium statistical physics. Statistical physics provides both cautionary tales of subtle memory effects in nonequilibrium systems and systematic tools designed to address complex scale-invariant behavior on multiple length scales and timescales.

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晶体的变形：与统计物理的联系

我们给出了针对统计物理学界的晶体塑性变形的鸟瞰图，以及针对塑性界的强制刚性系统统计理论的广泛介绍。磁铁、自旋玻璃、电荷密度波和稀释胶体悬浮液中的记忆效应与晶体中塑性屈服的开始有关。通过对重整化群和标度的简要介绍，讨论了位错雪崩和复杂的位错缠结。探索了断裂、堵塞、粗化和各种脱钉转变中的紧急尺度不变性的类比。晶体中的位错动力学挑战非平衡统计物理学。