Statistical Physics of the Jamming Transition: The Search for Simple Models

1999/05/09 by S. F. Edwards, D. V. Grinev
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech

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published as "Jamming and Rheology: Constrained Dynamics on Microscopic and Macroscopic Scales" eds. A.J.Liu and S.R.Nagel, Taylor & Francis, New-York (2001) · 22 pages, 11 figures,"Jamming and Rheology" Conference, ITP UCSB, October 1997. To appear in "Jamming and Rheology" eds. A.Liu and S.R.Nagel, Taylor & Francis, New-York (1999)

arxiv created 1999/05/09 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We investigate universal features of the jamming transition in granular materials, colloids and glasses. We show that the jamming transition in these systems has common features: slowing of response to external perturbation, and the onset of structural heterogeneities.

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