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Effects of particle-size ratio on jamming of binary mixtures

Soft Condensed Matter 2010-06-25 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We perform a systematic numerical study of the effects of the particle-size ratio R1R \ge 1 on the properties of jammed binary mixtures. We find that changing RR does not qualitatively affect the critical scaling of the pressure and coordination number with the compression near the jamming transition, but the critical volume fraction at the jamming transition varies with RR. Moreover, the static structure factor (density correlation) S(k)S(k) strongly depends on RR and shows distinct long wave-length behaviors between large and small particles. Thus the previously reported behavior of S(k)kS(k)\sim k in the long wave-length limit is only a special case in the R1R\to 1 limit, and cannot be simply generalized to jammed systems with R>1R>1.

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@article{arxiv.0912.3337,
  title  = {Effects of particle-size ratio on jamming of binary mixtures},
  author = {Ning Xu and Emily S. C. Ching},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.3337},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

5 pages and 4 figures, submitted to Soft Matter, special issue on Granular and Jammed Materials