Glassy dynamics in granular compaction
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
Two models are presented to study the influence of slow dynamics on granular compaction. It is found in both cases that high values of packing fraction are achieved only by the slow relaxation of cooperative structures. Ongoing work to study the full implications of these results is discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9912077,
title = {Glassy dynamics in granular compaction},
author = {Anita Mehta and G. C. Barker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9912077},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, 9 figures; accepted in J. Phys: Condensed Matter, proceedings of the Trieste workshop on 'Unifying concepts in glass physics'