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Coupled dynamical phase transitions in driven disk packings

Soft Condensed Matter 2022-11-09 v1

Abstract

Under the influence of oscillatory shear, a mono-layer of frictional granular disks exhibits two dynamical phase transitions: a transition from an initially disordered state to an ordered crystalline state, and a dynamic active-absorbing phase transition. Although there is no reason, {\it a-priori}, for these to be at the same critical point, they are. The transitions may also be characterized by the disk trajectories, which are non-trivial loops breaking time-reversal invariance.

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@article{arxiv.2203.07231,
  title  = {Coupled dynamical phase transitions in driven disk packings},
  author = {Akash Ghosh and Jaikumar Radhakrishnan and Paul M. Chaikin and Dov Levine and Shankar Ghosh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.07231},
  year   = {2022}
}
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