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An exploratory study of the glassy landscape near jamming

Statistical Mechanics 2020-05-20 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

We present the study of the landscape structure of athermal soft spheres both as a function of the packing fraction and of the energy. We find that, on approaching the jamming transition, the number of different configurations available to the system has a steep increase and that a hierarchical organization of the landscape emerges. We use the knowledge of the structure of the landscape to predict the values of thermodynamic observables on the edge of the transition.

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@article{arxiv.1908.06127,
  title  = {An exploratory study of the glassy landscape near jamming},
  author = {Claudia Artiaco and Paolo Baldan and Giorgio Parisi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.06127},
  year   = {2020}
}

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24 pages, 12 figures