Finite-size scaling at the jamming transition

We present an analysis of finite-size effects in jammed packings of N soft, frictionless spheres at zero temperature. There is a 1/N correction to the discrete jump in the contact number at the transition so that jammed packings exist only above isostaticity. As a result, the canonical power-law sca...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2012-08, Vol.109 (9), p.095704-095704, Article 095704
Hauptverfasser: Goodrich, Carl P, Liu, Andrea J, Nagel, Sidney R
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We present an analysis of finite-size effects in jammed packings of N soft, frictionless spheres at zero temperature. There is a 1/N correction to the discrete jump in the contact number at the transition so that jammed packings exist only above isostaticity. As a result, the canonical power-law scalings of the contact number and elastic moduli break down at low pressure. These quantities exhibit scaling collapse with a nontrivial scaling function, demonstrating that the jamming transition can be considered a phase transition. Scaling is achieved as a function of N in both two and three dimensions, indicating an upper critical dimension of 2.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/physrevlett.109.095704