1998/06/26 by Jeferson J. Arenzon · 1 citation
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Classical mechanics #Condensed matter physics #Formalism (music) #Granular flow and fluidized beds #Granular material #Material Dynamics and Properties #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Replica #Replica trick #Spin glass #Statistical physics #Theoretical and Computational Physics #Theoretical physics #cond-mat.dis-nn #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0305-4470/32/9/001
published as 1999 J. Phys. A 32 L107-L113 · 4 pages, 3 separate figures
arxiv created 1998/06/26 · openalex publication_date 1999/01/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
An infinite range spin-glass-like model for granular systems is introduced and studied through the replica mean-field formalism. Equilibrium, density-dependent properties under vibration and gravity are obtained that qualitatively resemble the results from real and numerical experiments.