Example of the spontaneous plastic event exhibiting a concatenation of a series of Eshelby quadrupoles resulting in a correlated displacement field with shear localization over a thin region, which is system-spanning. Example of the spontaneous plastic event exhibiting a concatenation of a series of Eshelby quadrupoles resulting in a correlated displacement field with shear localization over a thin region, which is system-spanning. (A) Direct numerical simulations. (B) Inserted line of Eshelby quadrupoles. Giorgio Parisi et al. PNAS 2017;114:22:5577-5582 ©2017 by National Academy of Sciences