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Jamming as a random first-order percolation transition

Soft Condensed Matter 2021-02-03 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We determine the dimensional dependence of the percolative exponents of the jamming transition via numerical simulations in four and five spatial dimensions. These novel results complement literature ones, and establish jamming as a mixed first-order percolation transition, with critical exponents β=0\beta =0, γ=2\gamma = 2, α=0\alpha = 0 and the finite size scaling exponent ν=2/d\nu^* = 2/d for values of the spatial dimension d2d \geq 2. We argue that the upper critical dimension is du=2d_u=2 and the connectedness length exponent is ν=1\nu =1.

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@article{arxiv.2102.01520,
  title  = {Jamming as a random first-order percolation transition},
  author = {Antonio Piscitelli and Antonio Coniglio and Annalisa Fierro and Massimo Pica Ciamarra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.01520},
  year   = {2021}
}

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11 pages, 3 figures, VSI of Physica A in memory of Dietrich Stauffer

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