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Jamming by Shape in Kinetically-Constrained Models

Statistical Mechanics 2014-05-02 v1

Abstract

We derive expressions for the critical density for jamming in a hyper-rhomboid system of arbitrary shape in any dimension for the Kob-Andersen and Fredrickson-Andersen kinetically-constrained models. We find that changing the system's shape without altering its total volume or particle density may induce jamming. We also find a transition between shapes in which the correlation length between jammed particles is infinite, and shapes that have a finite correlation length.

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@article{arxiv.1401.3942,
  title  = {Jamming by Shape in Kinetically-Constrained Models},
  author = {Eial Teomy and Yair Shokef},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.3942},
  year   = {2014}
}
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